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authorBill Fumerola <billf@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-10 05:28:46 +0000
committerBill Fumerola <billf@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-10 05:28:46 +0000
commit02aa3ed484b32bc4450707e98e8e7bad4f97eabb (patch)
treef7bf8b85180d9263a95ec680840cc724b2f754d8 /share/examples/drivers/README
parent29ad26f932b432ca14c4ae27243aced04861d089 (diff)
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--- a/share/examples/drivers/README
+++ b/share/examples/drivers/README
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
-Sat Feb 1 23:30:12 PST 1997 <Julian Elischer>
+$FreeBSD$
-These files are shell scripts.
+Author: Julian Elischer
+
+The files in this directory are shell scripts.
They will, when run, create an example skeleton driver
for you. You can use this driver as a starting point for
writing drivers for your own devices. They have all the hooks needed
-for intiialisation, probing, attaching, as well as DEVFS
+for initialization, probing, attaching, as well as DEVFS
node creation. They also create sample ioctl commands and a sample
ioctl definition .h file in /sys/sys. In other words they are fully
functional in a 'skeleton' sort of a way. They support multiple devices
-so that you may have several of your 'foobar' devices probed and atached
+so that you may have several of your 'foobar' devices probed and attached
at once.
I expect that these scripts will improve with time.
@@ -39,7 +41,3 @@ You should simply edit the driver and continue to use
The driver will end up in /sys/i386/isa for the device driver script,
and in /sys/dev for the pseudo driver script.
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