Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Devin Butterfield writes:
> : So my question is this: Do I need to do anything special to recover the
> : resources from the unknown driver so that during loading *my* module can
> : get the resources it needs?? Do I need to add something to my identify,
> : probe, or attach routines to make this work right?
>
> With modern enough versions of -current, you shouldn't have to do
> anything at all to make this work. It should just happen. And you'll
> likely not need an identify routine. The Unknown device just sucks up
> the plug and play resources. Therefore, there's already a device node
> in the tree addociated with that plug and play hardware, so your probe
> routine will just be called.
>
> However, this is fairly recent (like on the order of the first part of
> July, 2000). Before that you did ineed have to jump though many many
> hoops to make this work.
Hmmmm....are there any plans to "back-port" this to -STABLE? Or do we
have to wait for 5.0?
--
Regards, Devin.
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