From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 31 11:49: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FFF237B652 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12b7Pd-000NZj-0B; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 19:48:58 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA97055; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 20:53:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 20:55:37 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Nikolai Saoukh Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kldload of driver for isa pnp card (cycle two) In-Reply-To: <20000331204620.A33493@Draculina.otdel-1.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Nikolai Saoukh wrote: > Hot days of 4.0 preparation are behind. May be some > guru will find the solution for the subject? > > Two problems are here > > a) devices without driver attached to 'unknown' driver, thus > no orphan devices -- no reason to call device_probe method > from kldloaded driver. > > b) if disable 'unknown' driver as was recommended earlier, > device still consume resources, and this resources are not > presented to kldloaded driver -- resource leak. I will try to tackle these issues soon. Due to other commitments, this won't happen for a few days though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message