Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:38:14 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devd and caseful device ID matching on 6.0 Message-ID: <43C07B16.7050505@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <43C05270.60106@freebsd.org> References: <43C05270.60106@freebsd.org>
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Gary Palmer wrote:
> Hi Warner,
>
> I've been playing with devd and noticed that if you do something like:
>
> #
> # Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN PC Card
> #
> nomatch 10 {
> match "bus" "pci[0-9]+";
> match "vendor" "0x14E4";
> match "device" "0x4320";
> match "subvendor" "0x1028";
> match "subdevice" "0x0002";
> action "kldload BCMWL5_SYS";
> };
>
> it won't match (at least on 6.0) as the regex that is used is case
> sensitive. Since these are hex numbers, could the comparison not be
> case insensitive? I'm not sure what implications just making the regex
> case insensitive will have on other matching clauses (e.g. for "system").
At one point I added shorthand logic in devd for things like vendor,
device, subvendor, etc. that did numeric comparisons instead of regex's.
It might be worthwhile to extend the grammar to have a numeric match
operator.
Sam
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