From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 13 19:46:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06038 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:46:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06023 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:46:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA03345; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:15:18 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA16462; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:15:17 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980814121517.O1921@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:15:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: hm@kts.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: developing device drivers References: <19980814113852.J1921@freebie.lemis.com> <199808140235.TAA25965@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808140235.TAA25965@usr02.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 02:35:04AM +0000 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 14 August 1998 at 2:35:04 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> I think Hellmuth brought up an important issue which you don't appear >> to have covered: sure, it's easy enough to probe. But some probes are >> destructive, and if you don't know what's already been taken, you're >> liable to kill some other device while messing around looking for your >> devices. Is there some list which contains information about what >> resources are already assigned to other drivers? > > Yes. Otherwise PCMCIA cards couldn't work. That's why I specifically > referenced them. Thanks for the details. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message