From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 5 23:45:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C5F37BAD1 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:45:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from ragnet.demon.co.uk ([158.152.46.40]) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12d62i-0003JQ-0Y; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 07:45:28 +0100 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12d60w-000FdM-00; Thu, 06 Apr 2000 07:43:38 +0100 Content-Length: 1614 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200004052120.PAA17618@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 07:43:38 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: Call for review: restart pccardd by SIGHUP Cc: Mitsuru IWASAKI , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 05-Apr-00 Nate Williams wrote: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/~iwasaki/pccard/pccardd-signal.diff >> >> is for restarting pccardd by sending SIGHUP like >> >> >> >> # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/pccardd.pid` >> >> >> >> On restart, some efforts would be made for consistency such as >> >> maintain resource and card entry (except for generic entry) being >> >> used. >> > >> > This is *really* a good thing. Right now it's too difficult to debug >> > the system and get a working configuration. >> >> I second that. And can we have an optin to specify which configuration file >> to read from. This is useful for setups that change as one moves location. > > Umm, /etc/pccard.conf should be constant, and shouldn't require any > changing whatsoever. /etc/rc.conf may require changing, but the card > database certainly shouldn't... > > > Nate Under the present system I have to restart pccardd on a number of occasions: Xircom Realport card: This is a ethernet/modem card. To change function I need to replace the database entry to assign the required driver. Ethernet card: At various sites (home, work) different network addresses are used. So insert and remove lines need changing Granted the second example can be done via scripts but I see no way around the first problem. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message