Subject: Re: iwm driver status, lkm stuff
To: Hauke Fath <saw@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
From: John P. Wittkoski <jpw@netscape.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/16/1996 12:34:45
Hauke Fath wrote:

> I've made rapid progress in the last few days which was only possible
> because I managed to rip the driver out of the kernel and hammered it
> into an LKM. (It's the first one for MacBSD, and the first disk driver
> lkm known to me.)
> 
> This has cut down turnaround times by a factor of ten (10), and I have
> yet to experience my first kernel crash; it is definitely the way to go
> for efficient driver development.
> 
> I am planning to put up some module for ftp as soon as it actually
> _does_ something. If there is serious interest for an example for an LKM
> disk driver, I may be talked into scribbling down some notes and putting
> up what I have now. (Some room to spare on Puma's disks?)

Yes, yes, yes, yes, please, please, please, please!  :-)

	--John