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Date:      Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:40:37 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Emmanuel Duros <Emmanuel.Duros@sophia.inria.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Allocating memory in a network device driver 
Message-ID:  <199808130210.LAA21306@cain.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:22:54 %2B0200." <199808122122.XAA03579@chouette.inria.fr> 

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> In fact I have not found much documentation on the malloc function used
> in device driver. Can anyone point me to some ? I wonder what the
> M_DEVBUF, M_NOWAIT,... parameters are exactly for.
There exists a manpage for the kernel malloc under -current in section 9.
(It basically repeats what Archie said :)

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|http://www.gsoft.com.au                                            |
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