Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:30:15 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dynamic filetypes. please comment. Message-ID: <20000626183015.25813@hydrogen.funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20000626181658.H275@fw.wintelcom.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 06:16:59PM -0700 References: <20000626142428.A275@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000626170155.54803@hydrogen.funkthat.com> <20000626181658.H275@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein scribbled this message on Jun 26:
> * John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> [000626 17:02] wrote:
> > Alfred Perlstein scribbled this message on Jun 26:
> > > This idea leads us to a generic api for seqeunce number generation
> > > that we can use when a subsystem needs an increasing unique number,
> > > the api would look something like:
> > >
> > > (void)sequence_register("filetypes", starting_number);
> > > mynum = sequence_next("filetypes"); /* to be used for f_type */
> >
> > shouldn't we use newbus for this? and treat this like device driver
> > assignment? we can "wire" down filetypes numbers using the same method
> > that drivers are wired down with...
> >
> > Inventing another interface for one that already exists seems redundant..
>
> Nice try, but I think this qualifies as interface abuse of the year. :)
>
> The problem is that I can't dynamically allocate the 'type' argument
> to bus_alloc_resource.
>
> Doug, what do you think? Is there a way to dynamically make new
> types? Or an easy way to make indepenant busses so that I can
> allocate different sequences not pre-compiled into newbus?
I was talking about devclass... man 9 devclass for more info...
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