Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 11:59:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dmaddox@conterra.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loss of Functionality with newpnp Message-ID: <199909261859.LAA13355@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:55:57 EDT." <19990926145557.B430@dmaddox.conterra.com>
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> On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:41:14AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > PnP is an infrastructure facility used by drivers to detect and > > configure hardware. The side-effect you were relying on was that the > > old code would indiscriminately configure any and all PnP hardware > > regardless of whether a driver had requested it to. > > Why is this not desirable? I've already asked you to do your own research, and I meant it. The simple answer is "if we don't have a [working] driver for it, we don't want it". -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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