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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:34:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/aac aac_pci.c src/sys/dev/advansys a
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103011531420.43971-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010301121845.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 01-Mar-01 Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > Wouldn't this sort of thing be better handled in the bus code?
> 
> *shrug*  The same has been said of the RF_NOSHARE flag for interrupt
> resources.  Whatever floats your boat..

I'm not sure about the PCI stuff but uncommitted code for the EISA and MCA
busses doens't require the driver deal that detail as the bus actually
knows about it directly.

What provision is made for turning off entropy harvesting on a per device
instance basis?  A hint readable by the bus driver would do this nicely as
well dynamic sysctl node to allow runtime configuration.

Forcing device drivers to contain specific knowledge of bus internals
seems like a really bad idea.

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