Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 19:48:23 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound driver/devfs change Message-ID: <32D85F07.52BFA1D7@whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111211245.307J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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John Fieber wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > I noticed that you're writing all the tokens to the same place, > > so you can't delete those devices as you've lost their tokens.. > > ...Ah, well, as I said, kernel hacking is rather out of my area, > but I do enjoy learning new things. I think I'm a little over my > head already but haven't drowned quite yet. :) > > Anyway, storing them shouldn't be too difficult; in fact a slight > variation on the original version would do it: use dev->id_unit > instead of unit for the array index. But, what events would > precipitate the removal of an entry? Would there a `snddetach' > companion to sndattach somewhere? well theoretically, unlinking the driver (when we support that) or removing a pc-card device. just because we can't do that yet doesn't mean we shouldn't do "the right thing". > > -john
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