A/UX® Programmer's Reference Sections

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Parentheses can be used to override the default priority. The
following examples use parentheses to demonstrate the default
priority of the operators:
a I b & c is equivalent to a (b & c)
! a & b is equivalent to (! a) & b
Device Specification
The device specification provides information that autoconfig
must know to produce a complete and working kernel. A device
specification is comprised of the following six fields:
flags
vectors
prefix
major-number
maximum-devices
interrupt-level
The fields must appear on a single line in the master file in the
order shown above and must be separated by one or more blanks
or tabs. Each field is described below:
flags
One or more of the following characters:
a Tell autoconfig to create prefixcnt and
prefixaddr data structures for this module. The
value of prefix is discussed below.
b Tell autoconfig to create a bdev switch entry
for this module.
c Tell autoconfig to create a cdev switch entry
for this module.
1 Tell autoconfig to create a line discipline switch
entry for this module.
m Tell autoconfig to create a Streams entry for
this module.
n Tell autoconfig that this module uses a network
interface (TCPIIP).
popt
Tell autoconfig that this module has an initialization
routine. autoconfig generates code that
calls the initialization routine at the point in the dur-
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