From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 7 4:40:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADBE37B403; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 04:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 157yCH-0009tu-0U; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:43:29 +0100 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f57BdT718128; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:39:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:39:29 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Warner Losh , j mckitrick , Mike Smith , Subject: Re: newbussifying drivers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <20010605230032.B96188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> j mckitrick writes: > > : How would you recommending fixing this, taken from the ex driver? > > > > By deleting it. > > Uh, what? > > Non PnP devices that can be autodetected should be autodetected. > > Relying on the user to wire down hints is silly. Probably they should provide an identify method to look for and create the non-PnP devices. The actual probe method should be dumb and just use the resources given to it (IMHO). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message