Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:41:20 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: per-device sysctls Message-ID: <20040226.134120.71093962.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <3045.1077827869@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20040226.125904.08946359.imp@bsdimp.com> <3045.1077827869@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <20040226.125904.08946359.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh=
" writes:
: >In message: <xzp8yipk4gh.fsf@dwp.des.no>
: > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
: >: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: >: > Dag-Erling =3D?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=3DF8rgrav?=3D writes:
: >: > > "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: >: > > > That is a good reason to transitioning to this, so long as w=
e can come
: >: > > > up with a good way to represent detached nodes.
: >: > > As long as they have a device_t, it should be a piece of cake.=
: >: > Having a device_t is a property of having hardware, not of being=
a
: >: > device driver.
: >: =
: >: I believe that by "detached nodes", Warner means hardware that doe=
s
: >: not have a driver.
: >
: >They have a device_t, however. All nodes in the tree have a device_=
t
: >(kind of by definition). Not all nodes in the tree have a devclass
: >associated with their device_t (eg, not all devices are attached).
: >this is why you'll see lots of 'unknown' nodes in the devinfo output=
.=
: =
: GEOM, NETGRAPH pty, tun, tap, nmdm and similar have no newbus
: infestation and there would have to really good reasons to infest the=
m.
If they want to use this mechanism, they need to use the mechanism.
I'm cool with them not using this mechanism, but I don't think we
should kludge it to allow for them to use it. That's what I'm
saying... This is a newbus only mechanism and let's not get bogged
down in accomidatnig non-newbus things until we have the newbus parts
of it working.
Warner
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