From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 26 11:55:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hawaii.conterra.com (hawaii.conterra.com [209.12.164.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C26314E47 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 11:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from myself@conterra.com) Received: from dmaddox.conterra.com (root@dmaddox.conterra.com [209.12.169.48]) by hawaii.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08013; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:55:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from myself@localhost) by dmaddox.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA00508; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:55:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from myself) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:55:57 -0400 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: Mike Smith Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loss of Functionality with newpnp Message-ID: <19990926145557.B430@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: <19990926141529.A1143@dmaddox.conterra.com> <199909261841.LAA13232@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199909261841.LAA13232@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:41:14AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > PnP is an infrastructure facility used by drivers to detect and > configure hardware. The side-effect you were relying on was that the > old code would indiscriminately configure any and all PnP hardware > regardless of whether a driver had requested it to. > Why is this not desirable? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message