From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 9 16: 4:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B48D37B479; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:04:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA34766; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:04:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:04:28 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Wilko Bulte , mjacob@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list , justin@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/22650: SCSI cdrom attach problems on 4-stable Message-ID: <20001109170428.B34636@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20001109165253.A34636@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 03:53:44PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 15:53:44 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > Because the device hasn't gone away, it's still in the EDT. So there's no > > need to re-announce a device that is hasn't shown up or gone away since the > > last time the bus was scanned. > > Yeah, but it's ready now to attach a different driver other than pass... :-) The cd(4) driver had its chance, and declined. It doesn't get another chance. We could make a design decision to always re-announce all devices during a rescan, but it would take some thought and discussion to get to that point, and then some code changes to make all the probe code work that way. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message