From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 19 7:32:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9181614A13 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:32:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id HAA02005; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:30:54 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id HAA12916; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:30:54 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id HAA17737; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:29:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3885D9A4.8092A0F9@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:35:00 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Warner Losh , Edwin Culp , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with PCMCIA Cards References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > Matching drivers to hardware is > something a newbus driver should do itself; relying on an external hint > mechanism strikes me as a solution prone to user aggravation. (speaking > as an aggravated user of course.) Do you really want to cram a list of all known PCcard and USB devices into your kernel? Ugh. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message