Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:28:54 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for review: Wildcard entry support Message-ID: <200004031628.KAA61924@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:58:45 %2B0900." <200004031558.AAA01311@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> References: <200004031558.AAA01311@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> <200004030052.SAA56233@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200004031558.AAA01311@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: : I think it is better to have them because more than two available : config lines are needed if two cards use the same generic entry. : Also, I'm expecting that a lot of normal cards can be supported by : generic entries and this will cause few new card to be added. : In this case, the `just in case' entries make sense. Does the generic entry give you one of the cards, unspecified in number, or does it give you an unlimited number of them. If the form, I can see why you'd want to have more just in case. If the latter, then I don't see the point. If the generic code can eliminate a large number of entries (say all of the modems), then having a couple of extra lines shouldn't be a huge deal. They seem like they might be nops to me, which is why I ask. : > I was going to suggest this over on the nomads mailing list, after : > talking about the VIKING problem, but it looks like you've beaten me : > to the punch by actually doing it :-) : : No, I was not going to beat you :-) Ah. I mean beat as in "get there first" not beat as in "assualt or do bodily harm to". : Having multiple config lines can solve a part of `No free : configuration' problems, but I knew this just recently by tracking : down the source code because there is no sample entries like this. Understood. : # man pccard.conf says; just `There may be multiple config lines' :-< Yes. The man page for pccard.conf likely should be enhanced. I wonder if the folks over at freebsd-doc@ would be up to the task. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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