From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 19 18:11:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6334737B68F for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 18:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-117-212.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.212]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA24310; Fri, 19 May 2000 21:11:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3925E63E.EF415CFF@bellatlantic.net> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:11:26 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Langer Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: further question to bus_alloc_resource References: <20000520013751.A5852@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000520014352.B5947@cichlids.cichlids.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander Langer wrote: > > Thus spake Alexander Langer (alex@big.endian.de): > > > If so, I'm going to write patches. > > ... for almost every driver in the tree. > > Hmm. EITHER almost all people never unloaded their driver, or I still > understood wide parts wrong. > > I grepped through /sys now and only 10% of the drivers save the rid. > > Strange. Enlighten me, please. .-9 If a driver was written with expectation that it will be always compiled in the kernel (as opposed to being loaded as a module) then it never gets unloaded. And many drivers were written before the loadable modules appeared. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message