From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 26 13:40:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E3A914A12 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (1861 bytes) by hcshh.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 22:39:40 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-11) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #13) id m11VL4z-0003lgC; Sun, 26 Sep 99 22:39 METDST Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Loss of Functionality with newpnp In-Reply-To: <199909261841.LAA13232@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Sep 26, 99 11:41:14 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 22:39:29 +0200 (METDST) Cc: dmaddox@conterra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 992 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From the keyboard of Mike Smith: > I don't think an explanation of how PnP works or how it fits into our > device architecture is feasible at this point, so I'm going to > encourage you to do some research of your own. An explanation of how PnP works is not necessary, some good books and papers exist on this topic. But an explanation of the new device architecture for non-architects which is a bit more helpful than http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/devices.html and how the new-PnP code fits into that would be very helpful and i'm quite shure that this would enable much more people to actually work with the code and fix problems rather than just complaining here. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message