From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Apr 2 12:20:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811B937B725; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:20:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f32JKYg02571; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:20:34 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: John Baldwin Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org, mobile@FreeBSD.org, John Reynolds , Mike Smith , Warner Losh Subject: Re: followup to problems with 4.3-RC1 for laptops Message-ID: <20010402122034.V813@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010402104419.U813@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:33:58AM -0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John Baldwin [010402 11:34] wrote: > > On 02-Apr-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Shouldn't the device be able to specify an all-or-nothing request? > > > > Perhaps something that needs fast interrupts will cause much hair > > pulling if it doesn't get one becasue of latency issues messing up > > the hardware. If the bus didn't grant a fast interrupt it could then > > declien to attach, perhaps spitting out a meaningful error message > > at the same time. > > True, no need for an error message, but I suppose one could do something like > this then: Of course there's no need for an error message, everyone installing FreeBSD should be able to look at the kernel sources for his driver and figure out what's wrong with it. *gulps down another 2 sarcasm pills* -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message