From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 19 14:52:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F35151C2 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA89362; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:51:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:51:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Wes Peters Cc: Warner Losh , Edwin Culp , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with PCMCIA Cards In-Reply-To: <38863FC9.7B66BD3C@softweyr.com> 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 Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > Mmm... Good point. This means updating code and compiling a new > kernel every time Joe's hardware company sticks their own name on a > generic OEM PCI or PCCard, doesn't it? I love this industry. Too many drivers require knowledge of specific cards in order to properly handle 'quirks'. This isn't going to change. While a recompile is annoying we can be assured that a driver maintainer will only add IDs to a driver after they have been confirmed to work. With PCCARD, one has to contend with a certain amount of user fiddling in order to make things work; this appears to be a source of support load. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message