Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:52:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hm@kts.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: developing device drivers Message-ID: <199808140252.TAA27058@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980814121517.O1921@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Aug 14, 98 12:15:17 pm
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> >> I think Hellmuth brought up an important issue which you don't appear > >> to have covered: sure, it's easy enough to probe. But some probes are > >> destructive, and if you don't know what's already been taken, you're > >> liable to kill some other device while messing around looking for your > >> devices. Is there some list which contains information about what > >> resources are already assigned to other drivers? > > > > Yes. Otherwise PCMCIA cards couldn't work. That's why I specifically > > referenced them. > > Thanks for the details. Sorry, but I don't have documentation for the relevent routines, other than the routines themselves. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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