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From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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Subject: Re: Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Kip Macy wrote:

Hi,

> You might want to check out sys/modules/cxgb/tom/Makefile.

ha, so that file is not compiled at all. Thanks for pointing this out.
Is there a reason to keep it in cvs then? I guess there is but it's
not obvious to me;-)

So basically what does that means from the ?PI perspective.
It's no longer needed why? Or why had it been used in first place?

Do we expect people to need similar duplicates depending on what their
'hardware' supports?


/bz

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