From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 18 11:20:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DFF37B718; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:20:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@freebsd-services.co.uk) Received: from freebsd-services.co.uk (tiddler.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.83]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F9B1D149; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:20:08 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3AB50BA5.1A69AD72@freebsd-services.co.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:25:25 +0000 From: Paul Richards X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Dowse Cc: Mike Smith , "Alexander N. Kabaev" , Paul Richards , Makoto MATSUSHITA , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Stop annoying message of lnc References: <200103181323.aa08403@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian Dowse wrote: > > In message <200103180515.f2I5F9U05398@mass.dis.org>, Mike Smith writes: > > > >I don't quite understand Paul's reasoning, though; it's not actually > >useful to unload/reload parts of a device's bus attachment without > >unloading/reloading all the downstream parts of the driver. What do you mean by the downstream parts of the driver? I think it makes sense to be able to load/unload the bus specific parts of the driver independently. If you've only got a PCI device installed there's no reason to keep the ISA bus code in the kernel. We're not there yet, but I can see a time where we would want to load/unload the probe functions as we do hardware probing and then only pull in the rest of the driver when we associate that driver to the device. > >I think the fix should probably be committed and the driver turned into a > >single monolithic module. > > Yes, Paul essentially agreed to my doing this as an interim measure > until ifconfig is "fixed" to use the module file name rather than > the module name when loading drivers. I'll commit the change in a > few hours after I have tested that it works. Thanks. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message