From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 20 22:22:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA00871 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:22:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA00863 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:22:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id QAA06435; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:52:21 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701210622.QAA06435@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Kernel driver source installer? In-Reply-To: <32E45BAD.167EB0E7@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Jan 20, 97 10:01:17 pm" To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:52:20 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > Michael Smith wrote: > > > > One of the things that has always bugged me about installing kernel drivers > > that aren't part of a 'stock' distribution is working out where to put > > what, and those trivial edits of files.i386 etc. > > you don't need to edit that... > the file /sys/i386/conf/files.XXX is also searched for > configuration XXX. Sure, but you still have to edit _something_ in that directory. The idea behind putting it in files.i386 is that you can then generate as many different configs as you like; the driver effectively becomes part of the tree proper, until you rip it out again. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[