Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:39:53 +0000 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@qubesoft.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: nate@root.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia64 machdep.c Message-ID: <4f339e2416fad9f0baab265cec8a744d@qubesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050204.093654.114275559.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <84e9ba659174ea3f7c7b2930c0ae3759@xcllnt.net> <20050204.091426.98415585.imp@bsdimp.com> <5539563a425020d35ef1878057f4f85d@qubesoft.com> <20050204.093654.114275559.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On 4 Feb 2005, at 16:36, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <5539563a425020d35ef1878057f4f85d@qubesoft.com> > Doug Rabson <dfr@qubesoft.com> writes: > : > : On 4 Feb 2005, at 16:14, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > : > In message: <84e9ba659174ea3f7c7b2930c0ae3759@xcllnt.net> > : > Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes: > : > : > I'm not sure if my approach is correct -- should different > drivers > : > for > : > : > the same hardware share the same devclass? > : > : > : > : A datapoint: sio(4) and uart(4) are different drivers for the > same > : > : hardware. > : > : They don't share the devclass. > : > > : > Neither do they share the same name. > : > : Just to make things clear, if two drivers use the same name, they > will > : always share the devclass automatically (whether or not they use the > : same variable to reference the devclass) and will allocate > : non-conflicting unit numbers. > > Cool. I'd thought I'd wound up with two instances of ed0 when I had > different devclasses in the if_ed_isa and if_ed_pci files once upon a > time... This shouldn't be possible - both the driver registrations should go through devclass_find_internal() to find their devclasses and this always searches for an existing class before it creates one. If this happens then its a serious bug... >
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