Re: hotplug (was Re: Option N.V. Wireless WAN modem driver)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:45:27AM +0100, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > No. I am saying that the absolute broken concept of the Windows Driver
> > Disk should be handled internally by the driver. This is even more
> > important as the process of switching into "native" device mode differs
> > between vendors.
> 
> if the driver reconfigures the device directly, then it is not possible to
> look at the disk data using NetBSD.  What if there is configuration data
> (eg APN context info) to be found on the disk?

It is not possible to access the driver disk without a reset. That
applies to the Windows driver as well. As in: you can't store anything
sanely on this disk.

Joerg