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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2000 20:55:37 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Nikolai Saoukh <nms@otdel-1.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kldload of driver for isa pnp card (cycle two)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003312054500.250-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000331204620.A33493@Draculina.otdel-1.org>

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Nikolai Saoukh wrote:

> Hot days of 4.0 preparation are behind. May be some
> guru will find the solution for the subject?
> 
> Two problems are here
> 
> a) devices without driver attached to 'unknown' driver, thus
>    no orphan devices -- no reason to call device_probe method
>    from kldloaded driver.
> 
> b) if disable 'unknown' driver as was recommended earlier,
>    device still consume resources, and this resources are not
>    presented to kldloaded driver -- resource leak.

I will try to tackle these issues soon. Due to other commitments, this
won't happen for a few days though.

--
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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