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From: G. David Butler gdb@dbS...
Subject: [9fans] Re: etherelnk3.c
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:14:33 -0600

>From: eld@jew... (Eric Dorman)
>> From: "G. David Butler" <gdb@dbS...>
>> To: 9fans@cse...
>> Subject: [9fans] Re: etherelnk3.c
>> 
>  Another thing to consider is how these changes would affect
>the integration of ether drivers between the fs and terminal code.
>Integrating these two trees first allieviates a whole mess of 
>existing problems and ensures that this type of effort won't 
>have to be done again (perhaps differently, even) for fs.

In fact the problem becomes worse since Blocks don't exist
in the fs.  There we would have to use Msgbufs.