On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 08:16:07PM +0200, Remco wrote: > Mike Small wrote: > > I'm trying to understand autoconfiguration and was wondering where the > > name > > softc comes from in structs like pcmcia_softc. Is it soft in the sense > > I think it means software context. > > In case of a hardware driver it provides a software context for > communicating to the hardware. > >
Oh okay, thanks. That's how it's used below, but there were too many softc hits in my earlier searches to find this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vWqdWHxcm64J:dcubesoft.com/cam_initialization.htm+%22software+context%22+device+driver&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a -- Mike Small sma...@panix.com
