From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 01:52:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13FE16A41F for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:52:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E537543D45 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:52:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j661qTA9076770; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:22:29 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:22:20 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050705151932.783200e6@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050705151932.783200e6@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1495254.kG6LLdx7ND"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507061122.26639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Fabian Keil Subject: Re: ndisgen intended to be the only way to generate ndis? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:52:40 -0000 --nextPart1495254.kG6LLdx7ND Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:49, Fabian Keil wrote: > AFAIK, nobody has announced that the "old" way is death, > therefore I would like to know if the breakage is intentional > and if it is, if there's a technical reason why these methods > can no longer coexists. The "old way" built the .sys and .inf files into a .ko along with if_ndis=20 code. In the "new way" you build the .sys and .inf files into a .ko without any=20 other code. When you load it, it pulls in if_ndis which then reads the=20 wrapped .sys and .inf file you loaded. You can't build things the "old way" any more because the if_ndis code no=20 longer expects to be linked to a .sys file. I suggest the best approach would be to submit improved documentation for t= he=20 ndiscvt man page (and a new ndisgen page) along with some handbook changes.= =20 It would also be fairly trivial to modify ndisgen to take some arguments. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1495254.kG6LLdx7ND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCyzla5ZPcIHs/zowRAtfpAJ4nA4KOO4hxmwMHtA4+IzduRA4YNACeL/6B o7RtKpwQpmlKvv4O6f2fDbQ= =umBB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1495254.kG6LLdx7ND--