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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
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