Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:04:28 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>, mjacob@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>, justin@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/22650: SCSI cdrom attach problems on 4-stable Message-ID: <20001109170428.B34636@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011091553260.46819-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 03:53:44PM -0800 References: <20001109165253.A34636@panzer.kdm.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011091553260.46819-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 15:53:44 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > Because the device hasn't gone away, it's still in the EDT. So there's no > > need to re-announce a device that is hasn't shown up or gone away since the > > last time the bus was scanned. > > Yeah, but it's ready now to attach a different driver other than pass... :-) The cd(4) driver had its chance, and declined. It doesn't get another chance. We could make a design decision to always re-announce all devices during a rescan, but it would take some thought and discussion to get to that point, and then some code changes to make all the probe code work that way. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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