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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:09:04 -0700
From:      Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Unknown" driver gobbles resources??
Message-ID:  <399738A0.EFDCA5FA@wireless.net>
References:  <39969072.EED2B8F6@wireless.net>  <200008112235.PAA00839@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <39953196.1103F555@wireless.net> <200008121302.JAA00442@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <200008132257.QAA10640@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <39969072.EED2B8F6@wireless.net> Devin Butterfield writes:
> : So my question is this: Do I need to do anything special to recover the
> : resources from the unknown driver so that during loading *my* module can
> : get the resources it needs?? Do I need to add something to my identify,
> : probe, or attach routines to make this work right?
> 
> With modern enough versions of -current, you shouldn't have to do
> anything at all to make this work.  It should just happen.  And you'll
> likely not need an identify routine.  The Unknown device just sucks up
> the plug and play resources.  Therefore, there's already a device node
> in the tree addociated with that plug and play hardware, so your probe
> routine will just be called.
> 
> However, this is fairly recent (like on the order of the first part of
> July, 2000).  Before that you did ineed have to jump though many many
> hoops to make this work.

Hmmmm....are there any plans to "back-port" this to -STABLE? Or do we
have to wait for 5.0?
--
Regards, Devin.


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