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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:43:18 +0400
From:      Nikolai Saoukh <nms@otdel-1.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reserving Resources
Message-ID:  <20000403104318.A53697@Draculina.otdel-1.org>
In-Reply-To: <200004022029.OAA54341@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:29:55PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004022113120.604-100000@localhost> <200004022029.OAA54341@harmony.village.org>

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On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:29:55PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:

> The whole purpose of unknown is to CONSUME the resources that others
> might try to use.  This can't easily be done in the base bus w/o it
> actually consuming them.  Maybe we need a flag that means "I'm a
> pseudo device that was created to consume these resources, please feel 
> free to detach me when reprobing the bus for any reason."

I do not like the idea of resource consumation. Is there a
description of the problems which might arose without it?


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