On Jul 15, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > 2011/6/26 Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com>: >> I like the idea of having a standardized table. I've done this with PC Card >> and it really works well. It isn't the design pattern that all drivers use, >> and it may be hard to get everyone lined up on this. I tried PCI back after >> I did PC Card and met resistance. Most of the resistance was from people >> that are no longer active in the project, so I think that we could do this >> today. I suspect that some of the vendor drivers today might stand in the >> way of having PCI be completely uniform. >> >> The big advantage of USB is that it is uniform now. PCI isn't. It would >> take a lot of work to make it uniform. > > If only some PCI drivers can be made uniform, why not provide devd > autoload support only to those drivers whose maintainers choose to > make them uniform? This would give those opposing uniformity a > compelling reason to change their view, without forcing them into it.
Sure. The problem is that I don't want it to be another hack like the current USB which is specific to PCI. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
