Subject: Re: devd-alike for NetBSD
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/09/2005 22:34:11
>
> On Feb 8, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
>
> >Maybe all the PNP information on all busses could be represented as
> >locators? This would solve this problem - /dev/drvctl could
> >consistently
> >return locators only.
>
> That would be cool, but we can't currently handle string locators, and
> many busses have string-based PNP IDs.
Like MCA and EISA... I thought for some reason that strings locators are
going to be supported independently of this devd proposal.
Bye Pavel