From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 23:43:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Draculina.otdel-1.org (Draculina.Otdel-1.ORG [195.230.65.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D1937BD1B for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nms@otdel-1.org) Received: by Draculina.otdel-1.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 00F511D4; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:43:18 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:43:18 +0400 From: Nikolai Saoukh To: Warner Losh Cc: Nick Hibma , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reserving Resources Message-ID: <20000403104318.A53697@Draculina.otdel-1.org> References: <200004022029.OAA54341@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004022029.OAA54341@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:29:55PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message