From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 19:38:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA00179 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:38:19 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA00173 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:38:16 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA05673; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:37:50 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504050237.TAA05673@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Suggestion on slow probing devices To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:37:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org In-Reply-To: from "Frank Durda IV" at Apr 4, 95 09:14:00 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 671 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > For FreeBSD something similar could be implemented, although I suggest > adding an entry in kenrel config indicating if a given driver is capable > of being probed twice so that we don't have to modify all the drivers > at once. If the driver isn't a two-pass driver, it would be probed > only during the second pass, which would be equivalent to the pass > that is done now. > > Comments? > Good Thinking! All the SCSI-drivers are candidates, as well as any disk or CDROM drivers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'