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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:40:41 -0700
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Harry Coin <harrycoin@qconline.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: mss.c pcm fix to ' attach returned 6 ' load failure for  v5.x acpi and up
Message-ID:  <42D82D59.9060605@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20050715164008.01f0fdd8@mail.qconline.com>
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Harry Coin wrote:
> At 02:28 PM 7/15/2005 -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>> Drivers should not rely on isa_get_logicalid() to determine a boolean 
>> "is PNP?"
> 
> 
> The architecture manual specifies ISA_PNP_PROBE in non pnp ISA drivers 
> for that purpose.  As I understand it, John doesn't like the ugly nature 
> of passing in a null device list for non-pnp ISA drivers.    Hard to 
> argue with that.
> 
> So why not gin up a tiny little boolean kernel function 
> 'device_is_pnp(dev)) ' that does the right thing for non-pnp isa drivers 
> - once -,right after wherever ISA_PNP_PROBE is defined in the kernel?

I don't understand how this is needed.  ACPI devices are always a 
superset of PNP.  If a probe method is not PNP capable, it should never 
attach to the ACPI bus.  I think that's what his fix changes, and I 
think it's sufficient.

-- 
Nate



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