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Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:15:17 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        hm@kts.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: developing device drivers
Message-ID:  <19980814121517.O1921@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808140235.TAA25965@usr02.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 02:35:04AM %2B0000
References:  <19980814113852.J1921@freebie.lemis.com> <199808140235.TAA25965@usr02.primenet.com>

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On Friday, 14 August 1998 at  2:35:04 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> I think Hellmuth brought up an important issue which you don't appear
>> to have covered: sure, it's easy enough to probe.  But some probes are
>> destructive, and if you don't know what's already been taken, you're
>> liable to kill some other device while messing around looking for your
>> devices.  Is there some list which contains information about what
>> resources are already assigned to other drivers?
>
> Yes.  Otherwise PCMCIA cards couldn't work.  That's why I specifically
> referenced them.

Thanks for the details.

Greg
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