Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:25:25 +0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Alexander N. Kabaev" <kabaev@mail.ru>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Stop annoying message of lnc Message-ID: <3AB50BA5.1A69AD72@freebsd-services.co.uk> References: <200103181323.aa08403@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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Ian Dowse wrote: > > In message <200103180515.f2I5F9U05398@mass.dis.org>, Mike Smith writes: > > > >I don't quite understand Paul's reasoning, though; it's not actually > >useful to unload/reload parts of a device's bus attachment without > >unloading/reloading all the downstream parts of the driver. What do you mean by the downstream parts of the driver? I think it makes sense to be able to load/unload the bus specific parts of the driver independently. If you've only got a PCI device installed there's no reason to keep the ISA bus code in the kernel. We're not there yet, but I can see a time where we would want to load/unload the probe functions as we do hardware probing and then only pull in the rest of the driver when we associate that driver to the device. > >I think the fix should probably be committed and the driver turned into a > >single monolithic module. > > Yes, Paul essentially agreed to my doing this as an interim measure > until ifconfig is "fixed" to use the module file name rather than > the module name when loading drivers. I'll commit the change in a > few hours after I have tested that it works. Thanks. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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