In article <20011008185630.93932.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> I got a question on autoconfiguration for hot
> swappable device. I am putting support for a pcmcia
> device and have some question.
> 
> 1) Right now, I want to know how to handle the case
> when the card got inserted. I know where the device is
> in the tree. Do I need to trace the device's ultimate
> parent to do the configuration ? Is there any api for
> finding the parent ? I am not sure if such api exist
> so I wrote my new api to find a parent of a device. 
> 
> 2) is there any code example I can take a look for
> this support ?

You should have a look at usb and pcmcia/cardbus SCSI (and probably
network) adapters. They do attach network and scsi devices upon insertion.
Might be what you want.

You may want to post to tech-kern@netbsd.org for future questions,
i guess not too many of our kernel gurus are on this list. ;)


 - Hubert

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