From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 27 6:40:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3FE14F9B for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 06:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA87135; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 14:45:08 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 14:45:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Bill Paul Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update of if_dc driver In-Reply-To: <199911251954.OAA14315@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Bill Paul wrote: > My goal is to try and get this driver into 4.0 as soon as possible so > I can use it as a replacement for the al, ax, dm, pn and mx drivers. > However, there's a small problem: the de driver already supports the > 21143, although it does so poorly according to some people. We can't > have both drivers trying to support the same chip. I want to be able > to turn off 21143 support in if_de and let if_dc handle them, but I > don't want to annoy people who are using if_de with 21143 cards now > and not having any trouble. What do people think? Does anybody have > anything against me transfering support for the 21143 from if_de to > if_dc? Does anybody have a better idea? I'm open to suggestions. Why not use the probe priority system. For 21143 cards, return a negative number from de_probe and zero from dc_probe. If dc is present, it will win the auction and if not, de will get the hardware. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message