Subject: Re: devd-alike for NetBSD
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/09/2005 23:05:45
thorpej@shagadelic.org said:
> > Is there any place where the actually discovered locators can be
> > found?
> No, as far as I know, the kernel maintains no record of this.  It is
> temporary-only information in the attach_args. 

Actually, I've added provisions for this a while ago. It is optional;
busses might support it or not. It is pretty handy to deallocate
ressources of a bus if a child is detached.
See eg sys/config.h rev.1.69.

best regards
Matthias