From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 3 19: 6:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB28156D5 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 19:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ipass.net) Received: from stealth.ipass.net. (ts4-55-ppp.ipass.net [207.120.205.55]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA13975; Mon, 3 May 1999 22:06:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.ipass.net. (8.9.1/8.8.8) id WAA07768; Mon, 3 May 1999 22:07:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rhh) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:07:21 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: Amancio Hasty Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bktr (brooktree device) Message-ID: <19990503220721.A7476@ipass.net> References: <372D06E5.4EE29999@adinet.com.uy> <199905030226.TAA65033@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199905030226.TAA65033@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Sun, May 02, 1999 at 07:26:08PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Amancio Hasty: |Sorry about that . Originally the Bt848 driver was very easy to configure and |it didn't need any other external drivers . There outght to be a way for |a driver to query for dependent drivers and load them if necessary to |avoid the current driver dependency configuration and if it doesnt find the |dependent driver whenever possible fall back to a default behavior. Agreed. I've been thinking the same thing. Why force users that don't know (and don't want to know) the code to get intimate with implementation-specific details? Some will post to this list and maybe get a reply. Others will just give up and move on. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message