Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:46:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: grog@lemis.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IWill and sio, again and again Message-ID: <199805201546.IAA00372@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 1998 21:05:42 %2B1000." <199805201105.VAA00260@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >> I don't know of any correct patch, but the problem can be worked around > >> by ignoring the results of tests 5 and 7. > > Actually tests 5 and 8. > > >On what hardware did you try this? I tried exactly this approach on > >an IWill P55XB2, and it didn't work. > > IForget. The probe can't possibly not work if you ignore the failures > in it. The probe works, but the port doesn't, due to the attach making assumptions about the results of the probe. This is a basic failure in implementation of many probe/attach pairs, which will be exacerbated if/ when the probes are obsoleted by PnP detection. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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