Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:32:26 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: terry@lambert.org, julian@whistle.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: scsi drives left locked by shutdown Message-ID: <199610170202.LAA09715@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9610161909.AA09028@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Oct 16, 96 03:09:11 pm
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Garrett Wollman stands accused of saying: > > > I second the motion of adding "detach" routines... it's very necessary > > for rundown on pluggable hardware (which, by definition, is also > > unpluggable). The driver needs to be able to "rundown" at any time. > > This was, of course, one of the principal features of devconf, which > Poul-Henning ripped out some months ago without so much as a > by-your-leave and has yet to even discuss a replacement for. Er. Having been through the device-driver authoring process a couple of times now, this is new to me. In all my research, I don't believe I ever turned up any documentation on devconf, or any inkling that it actually achieved anything other than as a somewhat complex backend to 'lsdev'. I certainly don't recall seeing anything that implied that it supported drivers 'going away', nor any indication that it fitted in with the other major 'transient device' model (PCCARD). If it had been your pet project on which you were spending lots of time, I would sympathise with your ire; as it is I'm just surprised. > -GAWollman -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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