Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:24:47 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: User asks: can we decouple device vendor IDs from drivers? Message-ID: <20031031172447.GA716@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
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Hi,
This sounds like one for the NEWBUS people.
BMS
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Subject: Re: ATMEL atwi driver
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In message <20031022152953.GD3640@saboteur.dek.spc.org>, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
Hiya
To follow up what I said down the pub...
The file in solaris i was referring to is called /etc/driver_aliases
do a search to find out about it.
Looking at the mess in FreeBSD device drivers and how the drivers
decide to attach to a device or not, then a lot of effort would
be needed to clean those up, but should an alias file such as the
solaris one exist in FBSD, IMHO it would make the life of everyone
much easier.
Perhaps you should look into it and propose to the FBSD team about
implementing something sane like this, hacking every driver to
add a new device ID is really a pain.
Cya
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