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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 1998 04:44:46 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net>, Claude Tardif <intmktg@cam.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unknown abbreviations 
Message-ID:  <199806012044.EAA11242@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:41:53 EST." <199806011841.NAA01888@cerebus.nectar.com> 

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Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> I think the original poster was attempting to determine 
> something of the etymology of ``protosw'' and ``softc''.
> Of course I can't read minds :-) though I like to pretend
> to sometimes :-)
> 
> ``protosw'' is mneumonic for ``protocol switch'', as I
> pointed out previously.
> 
> Does anyone know why ``softc'' structs are called 
> ``softc'' ?  I'm still curious.

"Soft Config" is what I seem to remember being told, it may or may not be
accurate.   It's the software part of the device driver state, as opposed
to the hardware register state.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>   Netplex Consulting



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