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Subject: Re: Why are cardbus drivers cbb(4) and pccard(4) still included in
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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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.. after tinkering in the USB world, i wonder what's wrong with this:

* created a basic markup / description language to encapsulate what PCI/USB
probing requires;
* generated both config files _and_ .c / .h files for drivers to include;
* have the kernel build process do .device_description -> .c/.h (for
compiling) ; devd.conf (for runtime loading); an elf section if you'd like;
and loader-mumble.conf (for loader autoloading.)



-adrian