From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jul 14 0: 3:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from darwin.ntu.edu.au (darwin.ntu.edu.au [138.80.128.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5806D1506D for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:03:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mojave.lemis.com ([138.80.54.116]) by darwin.ntu.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21102; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:31:46 +0930 (CST) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id QAA02221; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:23:08 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990714162303.48297@mojave.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:23:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pccard and -current References: <199907132220.QAA50120@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199907132220.QAA50120@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 04:20:02PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 13 July 1999 at 16:20:02 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > I'm trying to find out what, exactly, the status of pccard is on > -current. Since I've had my head in some experimental code for a long > time, I no longer have a good feel for these things. Since this > experimental code is going to take a while, I'd like to try to address > whatever issues are currently present in the code. I've spent the > better part of 4 hours this afternoon getting a good tree together. I > have a good kernel, but need to do a build world, I think. > > My guess is that old drivers are working, but new-bus drivers (fdc and > sio) are not. Is that the case? > > Also, are there any objections to my placing more explicit error > messages for failure modes in pccardd/pccard,pcic drivers? None whatsoever! > I have added some locally (which got me to the point of realizing I > needed a make buildworld). Yes, I've done that too. I'll dig them out and send them to you. > pccardd's error reporting on plain old FreeBSD has > always been too oracular ("yes" or "no" w/o explaination) for my > tastes. Agreed. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message