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Date:      Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:41:53 -0500
From:      Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
To:        Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net>
Cc:        Claude Tardif <intmktg@cam.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unknown abbreviations 
Message-ID:  <199806011841.NAA01888@cerebus.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980601192301.42902@flix.net> 
References:  <35721ACA.A51B7BD4@cam.org> <199806010458.XAA27364@cerebus.nectar.com> <19980601192301.42902@flix.net>

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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.

Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> 

On 1 June 1998 at 19:23, Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net> wrote:
[snip]
> Jacques Vidrine wrote (on Jun 01):
> > softc   = (I don't know, but would like to)
> 
> As for softc, it's a generic name given to a structure that exists in
> almost every kernel driver.
[snip]


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