From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 13 19:53:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07026 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:53:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07021 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03381; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:52:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd003321; Thu Aug 13 19:52:41 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA27058; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:52:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808140252.TAA27058@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: developing device drivers To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:52:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hm@kts.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980814121517.O1921@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Aug 14, 98 12:15:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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. Sorry, but I don't have documentation for the relevent routines, other than the routines themselves. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message