On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:19:03AM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> able to specify this where it belongs -- in the config file, which is where
> information about device dependencies ought to go.

I disagree - this does not belong into config files, but in bus code.

> So, my idea is this syntax or something similar:
> 
> 	emac0 at pci? defer seeprom0

For pci you can do something like that, grep for __PCI_BUS_DEVORDER.
It is intended to synchronize the attaching of pci devices with a walk
of the firmware device tree.

Martin