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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:28:02 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pccardd patches for review
Message-ID:  <19990720182802.E84734@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990720015015.C30371@nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:50:15AM -0700
References:  <199907140636.AAA53085@harmony.village.org> <19990720015015.C30371@nuxi.com>

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On Tuesday, 20 July 1999 at  1:50:15 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>> I've spent some time hacking pccardd to not have that frustrating
>> delay in it,
>
> One thing we really need is a way to make pccardd to not daemonize
> (regardless of the delay) until it has initialized any Ethernet cards.
> Otherwise Jordan's new DHCP support in sysinstall will not work well on
> laptops.
>
> Right now laptops have to be special cased since the Ethernet devices
> isn't registered until well after rc.network is run.

That's not the only problem with the current situation.  xntpd, rwhod
and nfs mounts also fail in strange ways.

Greg
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