From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Apr 2 15:17:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D59E37B773; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f32MHFG77490; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010402122034.V813@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:16:50 -0800 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: followup to problems with 4.3-RC1 for laptops Cc: Warner Losh , Mike Smith , John Reynolds , mobile@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Apr-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * John Baldwin [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 -- 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