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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: nick.hibma@jrc.it, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: cdevsw_add
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>> Hm, I think this a bad choice. Which are 'all the other drivers'? The
>> probe should really be as thin as possible to avoid unnecessary delays
>> when probing in a kernel, like GENERIC, with a lot of device drivers
>> compiled in.
>
>Well, in the PCI drivers, it is just the meteor, the brooktree848
>and the Xilinx PGA driver (xrpu)
>
>In the /sys/i386/isa drivers, there were quite a few.

The isa drivers provide many bad examples.  Most of them attached the
devsw in a disgusting SYSINIT even if the device is disabled.  I moved
the devsw attach to the device attach function in some drivers that
I worked on.  This was necessary to support pcvt and syscons sharing a
devsw entry.

Bruce


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