Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 07:57:00 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, steph8@flash.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound Question Message-ID: <199803110657.HAA10627@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199803110719.XAA21978@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Mar 10, 98 11:19:16 pm
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> > > yes but in the docs it says that PnP cards are assigned the next > > > available unit numbers, so you get pcm1 ... i don't see where is the ... > > It does confuse a lot of folks though, especially since they now have ... > > work. Why isn't 0 used as the first unit for some people? On my ... > At the time that the PCI/ISA probe runs, it has now way of knowing > whether the static configuration values that are possessed by the ISA > instance actually correspond to anything. So it can't up and take it > away. in any case i agree that this is ugly, but I don't have a good solution other than to use some bit in the "flags" field to tell the driver that it is allowed to grab the statically configured unit number. But if this is done, i'd like to see it done consistently also for PCI devices, otherwise it will just add confusion. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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