Re: newbus flaw

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 05/12/04

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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:26:57 +0200

    John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> writes:
    > You are incorrect in assuming you can't find out if another child already
    > exists.. Usually this is a problem of properly allocating resources so
    > that you know the other child exists. Since you are using identify, you
    > already don't have a "self describing" bus, which means that you have
    > to either use hints, or another method to make sure that your device
    > doesn't already exist.

    It's not quite that simple. See the block comment at the top of
    src/sys/dev/ichwd/ichwd.c for an explanation.

    DES 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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