Re: device matching at mainbus

[Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost>]

Mouse wrote:

> >> [...]
> >> How can I implement 2 instances of a driver at mainbus otherways?
> > So here is no one that knows anything again.
> 
> Well, one that _I_ don't, at least.  The closest I've come to this was
> when I added a pseudo-bus at mainbus, which I did because I had a
> pseudo-device I wanted in the autoconf tree, which (in the version I
> did it in) pseudo-devices weren't.  So, I added a pseudo bus and made
> my devices attach there; as far as the autoconf machinery is concerned,
> there's nothing pseudo about them.  The driver doesn't actually talk to
> any hardware, but autoconf doesn't know that.
> 
> I can give diffs if you want, but the kernel I did that to is now over
> a decade old, so it's at least moderately likely it won't help much.
> 
> > Thx guys for letting me swim alone in the cold water.
> 
> Well, as I think we've remarked before, you're off in an area of the
> water where not very many people are swimming.
> 
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Thanks Mouse, but I don't think that this is of much help.
I've converted the driver to my rtvbus again to be able to use the autoconf
stuff using the "native" drivers as an example.

...seeing somebody swimm in arctic water isn't meant as to be looking how long
he could withstand  the temperatures... (that's not at your address)

To be clear what I mean, there are many occurences of things like this:

        /* 
         * XXX - This is evil and ugly, but...
         * due to the nature of how bus_space_* works on VAX, this will
         * be perfectly good until everything is converted.
         */


This one is from Ragge and for sure it exists for a long time.
I don't think that is mean't as an example how to do thinkgs at all,
and every driver is doing things in a different (evil?) way.
For one that doesn't know much about those things. this is like hell trying
to learn how it should be done at all.


BTW:
<mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>: host
Sparkle-4.Rodents-Montreal.ORG[216.46.5.7]
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    completely broken, handing 550-out no contact information at all when
    queried for .de domains in 550 the usual way.  Such a domain has no
    place on a civilized network.

Right, but do you think I can change ther policy in any way?
They do this b'cause of "security reasons of personal data".
You can get the wanted contact information on ther website www.denic.de
after entering some captcha, so only machines are prevented to aquire and
collect those informations automagically.
No, I don't think this is the right way, so don't kick in my ass this way
:-)
I do have a .com domain also, but haven't setup the MUA Architecture for
this domain (get only forwards).


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