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Date:      Wed, 10 May 95 11:06:27 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        hm@altona.hamburg.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: A question of downloading device drivers
Message-ID:  <9505101706.AA25853@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m0s95LA-0002OfC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> from "Hellmuth Michaelis" at May 10, 95 08:33:48 am

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> > > Really, it should be done with kernel level vnode I/O, just like the
> > > UFS disk quotas.
> 
> Do you mean that the device driver code should access a file in the
> filesystem directly ?

Yes; at attach time, it should do the download by reading a download
file from the root FS.  Not at interrupt level, of course.

You could actually delay until first open.  Like a "touch" instance in
/etc/rc, or whatever.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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