Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:16:50 -0800 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: followup to problems with 4.3-RC1 for laptops Message-ID: <XFMail.010402151650.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010402122034.V813@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On 02-Apr-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [010402 11:34] wrote: >> >> On 02-Apr-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> > Shouldn't the device be able to specify an all-or-nothing request? >> > >> > Perhaps something that needs fast interrupts will cause much hair >> > pulling if it doesn't get one becasue of latency issues messing up >> > the hardware. If the bus didn't grant a fast interrupt it could then >> > declien to attach, perhaps spitting out a meaningful error message >> > at the same time. >> >> True, no need for an error message, but I suppose one could do something >> like >> this then: > > Of course there's no need for an error message, everyone installing > FreeBSD should be able to look at the kernel sources for his driver > and figure out what's wrong with it. If you get an error in attach(), you will return it back up the chain and device_probe_and_attach() will output a message such as: foo0: attach failed - returned 6 or some such. > *gulps down another 2 sarcasm pills* *thwap* -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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