From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 21 00:42:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA28074 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 00:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA28066; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 00:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA20692; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 08:37:06 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199707210637.IAA20692@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: sound driver structure and configuration To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 08:37:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199707210551.PAA21772@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 21, 97 03:21:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Aha. May I offer a suggestion? > > Have the 'snd' controller pull in all the modules for the various > on-card subsystems. Have each of these subsystems register themselves > in a linker set using a 'name' field to identify themselves. > > Then have 'device at ...?' statements which pull in probe code for right, but this brings me back to the initial question. What does the config progrm do when it finds a "device at foo?" statement ? I have tried running config with different config files where foo is replaced by bar o rother strings and see no difference in the output . I guess the "isa" keyword is somehow magic (or it becomes specially treated because of something in the "files.i386" file ? Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________