Subject: RE: Can pseudo-devices be parents?
To: Ferrari, Stephen <smf@pirus.com>
From: Ferrari, Stephen <smf@pirus.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/10/2001 16:07:36
>I looked at the hack that I mentioned in my original mail, of making =
my
>device a non-pseudo-device at root so it could have a child, but that
didn't
>pan out.  I see that config allows multiple "at root" devices to be
>declared, but the configure() routines for all the architectures seem =
to
>call config_rootfound for only hardcoded busses, mostly mainbus.  I =
was
>hoping that they would walk through cfroots and call config_rootfound =
for
>_all_ the roots, which for most configurations is probably just =
mainbus.
>From my na=EFve viewpoint, that would eliminate the benefit of =
pseudo-devices
>that I know about, namely that they don't need hardware to cause them =
to be
>discovered.  Oh well.

I meant something like "that would eliminate my need to use a =
pseudo-device
by providing the only benefit that I know of and that I need, =
namely..."=20