From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 15:52:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA27137B43C for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA67552; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:52:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA52995; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:52:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008232252.QAA52995@harmony.village.org> To: Archie Cobbs Subject: Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS Cc: Daryl Chance , FreeBSD Hackers In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:09:47 PDT." <200008232209.PAA35866@bubba.whistle.com> References: <200008232209.PAA35866@bubba.whistle.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:52:02 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200008232209.PAA35866@bubba.whistle.com> Archie Cobbs writes: : Warner Losh writes: : > : So why is it a separate option? : > : > because it is a driver. Why is pci a separate driver? While most : > computers have it, not all do. Likewise with miibus. : : Ah.. but this analogy is not exact, because (for example) : "device ed0" does not require PCI, wheras all of these miibus : drivers do.. "device xe" does require pccard, otherwise it fails. "device wi" requires pccard, but will silently fail if no pccard in kernel. : But you're probably right, since it's a driver maybe that's : a good enough reason. I think that it is a minor flaw in our config system. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message