Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:48:22 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/2130: Installation bug Message-ID: <199612020618.QAA03597@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199612020549.GAA20707@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 2, 96 06:49:01 am"
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > As Michael Smith wrote: > > > PCI devices should trigger this section of code : ... > They do. Good. 8) > Well, why do they appear in UserConfig in the first place, if you > can't do nothing with them? I thought it was intended that one can > change the flags? If you read one comment in userconfig.c, why not read them all, or the message that you just quoted? PCI devices are shown purely and simply as a sop to users who might otherwise say "where is my 'xxx' PCI driver?" > Anyway, Pedro's (?) suggestion was to make it more obvious to the > innocent souls that PCI devices can and will be autoconfigured > reliably, so there's no need to mess with them. Unfortunately, it's a little difficult with the current userconfig to frob the help message on a per-device-type basis to remove the '[Del]' hint. You would need to move the specification of the message down a couple of layers to the point where a decision is made as to what sort of device is current. One might change the hint text about PCI devices, but then what was on the screen would be contradictory; at the moment, the fact that PCI devices can't be deleted seems to be no more contradictory 8) (Yes, I'll do something about this at some point.) > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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