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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:39:29 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: newbussifying drivers 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106071238040.18103-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106070240550.26121-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message <20010605230032.B96188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> j mckitrick writes:
> > : How would you recommending fixing this, taken from the ex driver?
> >
> > By deleting it.
>
> Uh, what?
>
> Non PnP devices that can be autodetected should be autodetected.
>
> Relying on the user to wire down hints is silly.

Probably they should provide an identify method to look for and create the
non-PnP devices. The actual probe method should be dumb and just use the
resources given to it (IMHO).

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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