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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:34:05 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Attention device-driver writers!
Message-ID:  <9504121934.AA07483@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>

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I recently made another apss through all the device drivers in
preparation for adding another variable for devconf.  (I might also
partially re-design the way devconf and sysctl interface; it could use
some improvement, but I'm not likely to have the time.)

The following drivers are on my devconf $#!+ list, and were not fixed,
or were only incompletely fixed, in this round:

Support completely missing:
cy, gpib, gsc, ix, ze, zp, joy, tw

Registration order bad:
cx (?), syscons

State broken:
lots, including el, eg, ep, wd, and the netif part of lpt

Not examined:
pcvt, sound, matcd, scsi (waiting for Peter)

A special raspberry goes to the PCI code, for getting the idea almost
completely inside-out.  This is supposed to be DRIVER-driven, not
generic-bus-code-driven.  I don't want to go fiddling fifteen
different PCI structures to provide the necessary information next
time I add a variable to the devconf interface!

-GAWollman

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