2 ESDI drives, and misc. flames

[steve at cdp.UUCP]

John,

> |Another interesting note.  In a fit of frustration, I tried to
> |link the 386/ix hd.o driver into the uPort kernel.  The link
> |failed, with undefined (global) symbols 'dpt1' and 'dpt2'.  I
> |find it outrageous that Microport decided to break the SVR3
> |driver interface.  After all, isn't the success of UNIX based
> |on the standard interfaces it provides ?
>
> My guess is that these are global symbols in the Interactive driver which
> are referenced by some other driver in Interactive's distribution.  The
> core (not the device drivers) of both our kernels is based on the same
> code from AT&T.  Microport did *not* decide to break the kernel interface
> and neither did Interactive.
>

The error message from ld indicated that the undefined symbols 'dpt1'
and 'dpt2' were referenced from uPort's kernel (os.o).

Thanks for spending the time to address these concerns.


Steve Fram