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Date:      Sat, 8 May 1999 00:26:12 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Slight suggested change to PCI config stuff.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905080025000.18703-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990507160746.14285H-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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On Fri, 7 May 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 7 May 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Sounds good.  You'd do it totally differently in 4.x (use a "generic 
> > match" priority driver for the catchall bridge code and a "device 
> > match" priority for the chipset-aware drivers).
> 
> and
> 
> On Fri, 7 May 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > 
> > This makes sense for 3.x. Everything is different for 4.x though post
> > new-bus. The right thing in 4.x is to use priority ordered probes (which I
> > have working but haven't committed). If a driver matches the generic class
> > it would return a lower priority than a driver which matches the device
> > exactly.
> 
> ok here is a patch for 3.x
> 
> it's excedingly simple, and allows a specific driver to have precedence
> over the builtin generic entries..
> 
> I'd like to sneak this in asap if possible..
> I think it can be proven to be benign.
> 
> any seconders?

It looks like it would work. A bit ugly but I don't mind since we have the
possibility of the 'right' solution in -current.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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