From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 3 17:54:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF7B37B400; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:54:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0165.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.165] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16hhgN-0006Ag-00; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 17:54:32 -0800 Message-ID: <3C82D3C9.C7631074@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 17:54:17 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Smith Cc: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700) References: <200203032107.g23L7I000782@mass.dis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Smith wrote: > > May be it is time to commit this line ? > > No. This would mean that sio(4) will attach to any IrDa port and > preclude an IrDa-specific driver from doing so. I'd be happy to have one of these, if you have an IrDa driver lying around for FreeBSD, and haven't committed it yet. > If any variation of this patch is committed, at the very least sio(4) > should return a lower preference than 0 for it's match. This makes sense; then if anyone ever writes an IrDa driver for FreeBSD some time in the next six years, it will displace the serial driver, which at least will work today -- with this patch. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message