From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 29 10:23:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26967 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:23:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26956 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:23:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zv3nC-0006mO-00; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:22:54 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA34761; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:21:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199812291821.LAA34761@harmony.village.org> To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: How do I ... Cc: lile@stdio.com (Larry Lile), peter@netplex.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:10:52 +0100." <199812291610.RAA15484@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199812291610.RAA15484@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:21:11 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199812291610.RAA15484@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Luigi Rizzo writes: : you could look at how the pcmcia support for network cards is done. : I seem to remember they leave some stuff resident but have a : "not-present" flag to take care of the cases when the interface is : removed. I've looked into that. The problem with doing that is that you can't "reload" the driver. pccardd appears to bring the old version of the code over and over again. It never removes the device. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message