Subject: Re: probe()
To: Kamal R Prasad <kamalrpr@in.ibm.com>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/29/2003 09:40:39
On 2003.04.29 06:55 Kamal R Prasad wrote:

> I was refering to Digital Unix terminology which names the equivalent
> of match() as probe(). I believe some other Unix'es also refer to it=20
> as probe().
From driver(9):
     If the probe process identifies additional
     device properties, it may modify the members of the attachment
structure.
     For these devices, the NetBSD convention is to call the match
routine
     foo_probe() instead of foo_match() to make this distinction clear.
You may read autoconf(9) and sys/dev/pci/pci.c also.=20
--=20


tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

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