Subject: RE: USB device attachment
To: 'Lennart Augustsson' <lennart@augustsson.net>
From: Adam Glass (Exchange) <adamg@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/25/1999 18:33:11
I was attempting to make the point that having a distinction between the
device and the driver that sits on top has other advantages such as allowing
you to represent the resources consumed by a device independent of whether
you have a driver for it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lennart Augustsson [mailto:lennart@augustsson.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 11:28 AM
To: Adam Glass (Exchange)
Cc: 'cgd@netbsd.org'; tech-kern@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: USB device attachment
"Adam Glass (Exchange)" wrote:
> How do you handle resources consumed by ISAPNP or PCI cards that we're
> turned on by the BIOS but for which you have no driver? Are they properly
> accounted for so that you do not put something else on top of them without
> first turning them off?
Huh? What has this got to do with USB?
-- Lennart