2007/587 Volo reference
Rao Shoaib
rao.shoaib at sun.com
Wed Jan 23 11:17:57 PST 2008
Thanks Jim. We currently have two consumers that could use a plugin
capability, NL7C and KSSL.
Rao.
James Carlson wrote:
> The DACF facility that Garrett was referring to is configured in
> /etc/dacf.conf and is implemented in $SRC/uts/common/os/dacf.c.
>
> See "Extensions to Device Autoconfiguration" (PSARC 1998/212).
>
> It does look like the kind of mechanism that could create layered
> drivers fairly nicely, though it's unclear how applicable that might
> be for the Volo design.
>
> (I'd suggest omitting a layered interface until there's a consumer on
> the horizon with specific needs. It's going to be very hard to design
> some sort of plug-in interface without a specific target application
> in mind.)
>
>
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