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Re: header files, sys/stream.h, mbuf.h ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Thu Nov 7 11:36:44 1996

Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:30:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611071622.QAA13969@GPO.iol.ie>
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, John Brosnan wrote:

> I'm porting a device driver from SunOS to Redhat Linux, 
> the driver build requires the following header files:
> 
>         sys/stream.h
>         sys/mbuf.h
>         sys/kmem_alloc.h
> 
> The above files do not seem to exist on Linux, any 
> suggestions/ideas ?

SunOS uses a different device driver scheme than Linux.

Porting drivers between *any* two different OS's is more than just
recompiling. You probably need to rewrite the driver more or less. You
also might want to ask on the linux-kernel list for more information,
since that's a more appropriate forum.

-- Elliot

A: "Talk about stupidity!"
B: "Who, you?"
A: "No, me!"


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