Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:24:47 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: User asks: can we decouple device vendor IDs from drivers? Message-ID: <20031031172447.GA716@saboteur.dek.spc.org>
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--0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, This sounds like one for the NEWBUS people. BMS --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <darron@beethoven.kewl.org> X-Original-To: bms@spc.org Delivered-To: bms@spc.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B458E65480 for <bms@spc.org>; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:08:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from arginine.spc.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arginine.spc.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19546-03-7 for <bms@spc.org>; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:08:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beethoven.kewl.org (beethoven.kewl.org [212.161.35.251]) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBC665211 for <bms@spc.org>; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:08:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from beethoven.kewl.org ([212.161.35.251]) by beethoven.kewl.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AFcl9-000Pq5-00 for bms@spc.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:08:27 +0000 To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> From: Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org> Subject: Re: ATMEL atwi driver In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:29:53 BST." <20031022152953.GD3640@saboteur.dek.spc.org> X-Mailer: nmh-1.04 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:08:27 +0000 Sender: darron@beethoven.kewl.org Message-Id: <E1AFcl9-000Pq5-00@beethoven.kewl.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) In message <20031022152953.GD3640@saboteur.dek.spc.org>, Bruce M Simpson wrote: Hiya To follow up what I said down the pub... The file in solaris i was referring to is called /etc/driver_aliases do a search to find out about it. Looking at the mess in FreeBSD device drivers and how the drivers decide to attach to a device or not, then a lot of effort would be needed to clean those up, but should an alias file such as the solaris one exist in FBSD, IMHO it would make the life of everyone much easier. Perhaps you should look into it and propose to the FBSD team about implementing something sane like this, hacking every driver to add a new device ID is really a pain. Cya -- // / {:)==={ Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org> \\ \ --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW--
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