Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:35:04 +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: <199808140235.TAA25965@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980814113852.J1921@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Aug 14, 98 11:38:52 am
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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. 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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