From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 15:29:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB2937B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:29:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BDB443E67 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:29:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0180.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.180] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17VJm2-0007eK-00; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:29:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3D374119.8477B46B@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:28:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sabapathi, Vanishree" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reg: Claiming a device which is already claimed by another driver. References: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E57F6B2B0@EXA-ATLANTA.se.lsil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Sabapathi, Vanishree" wrote: > If not an answer to my question, can someone please tell me which is the > FreeBSD device driver development forum or New's group, where I am most > likely to get help... Not all processes are reversible. That is, things, once allocated, may not be capable of being deallocated. The forum you should probably use is -current or -hackers (dpending on the version you are writing the code for), or -net (if it's a network device of some kind). My advice is that taking something away from a driver is a lot harder than the driver not being allowed to grab it in the first place, so your best bet is to grab it first. Normally, you would never face this problem, anyway, because you would not have two device drivers for the same device, because one device driver would be good enough. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message