"M. Warner Losh" writes: > The problem with decoupling things entirely from the drivers is that > many drivers will say "if I have this revision of that card, do this > workaround." or "if I'm this or newer, I have this feature" both of > which are broken by the kernel forcing the driver to service a given > hunk of hardware.
Hmm. Careful design may sort this out, methinks. If the file (which sounds analagous to /boot/device.hints to me) turned devid's into generic griver requrements (DEVID(0x04589045) == driver(foo) revision(bar) flags(baz, qux)) would that not be usable? (/me wonders if he has the time to do this - he's certainly interested) > The other down side is that when you bork the alias > file on solaris, you are so hozed. ... like most of the files in /boot/... > However, it would make the dynamic loading of drivers easier. I really like to concept of configuring things with vi(1), instead of with gcc :-) M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
