Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 20:54:48 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: nick.hibma@jrc.it, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk, current@freebsd.org, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: cdevsw_add Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906042053040.55849-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199906041425.AAA00619@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> 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. If people feel that its wrong to put the cdev registration in a sysinit, please feel free to rip out the DEV_DRIVER_MODULE stuff and replace it with whatever the 'right thing' is. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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