On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:25, Warner Losh wrote: > That's not a good enough reason to make it an option, it should really > be a device. Users that want it can add it to their kernel config. > In fact, they'd have to add it either way, so why make it weird for > them. > > Put this device on the ISA bus, give it an identify routine that > always adds it (this isn't GENERIC safe, but since there's no way to > know the device is there, you are stuck with that).
A good example of this (which I shamelessly stole for work :) is in if_ep (although you only need the stuff from "child = .." to "bus_set_resource.."). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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