Subject: Re: obsoleting /usr/include/sys/md[45].h
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jarom=EDr_Dolecek?= <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@vaasje.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/11/2000 23:13:53
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:03:37PM +0100, Jaromír Dolecek wrote:
> Well, the support for this on Solaris is there primarily because
> their syssrc is NOT available. Ours is, so IMHO we don't really need this.
> 
> I seriously doubt that one would want to do kernel development
> and won't want to have also syssrc around.

More like: they have a well-documented DDI (device driver interface),
so you don't need the source (well, most of the time.). Ideally,
I think you should be able to create a fully functional LKM without
having to go into syssrc.

- Frank