ndisgen intended to be the only way to generate ndis?

[Fabian Keil]

"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:49, Fabian Keil wrote:
> > AFAIK, nobody has announced that the "old" way is death,
> > therefore I would like to know if the breakage is intentional
> > and if it is, if there's a technical reason why these methods
> > can no longer coexists.
> 
> The "old way" built the .sys and .inf files into a .ko along with if_ndis 
> code.
> 
> In the "new way" you build the .sys and .inf files into a .ko without any 
> other code. When you load it, it pulls in if_ndis which then reads the 
> wrapped .sys and .inf file you loaded.
> 
> You can't build things the "old way" any more because the if_ndis code no 
> longer expects to be linked to a .sys file.

Thanks for pointing this out.
I have missed this design change completely.

> I suggest the best approach would be to submit improved documentation for the 
> ndiscvt man page (and a new ndisgen page) along with some handbook changes. 
> It would also be fairly trivial to modify ndisgen to take some arguments.

Agreed.

Fabian
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