Subject: Re: ISA direct config of ACPI devices
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/21/2007 13:58:36
On Nov 21, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Matthias Drochner wrote:

>
> ad@NetBSD.org said:
>> --- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
>> +++ dev/isa/isadevs	21 Nov 2007 20:29:28 -0000
>>
>> Most of these entries are already in isapnpdevs. Is there a problem
>> with sharing the tables?
>
> These are different namespaces. (Well, the term "PNP-ID" is used
> as if there was a standard, but the mechanisms behind it are
> completely unrelated.) So I'd consider it dangerous to assume
> a consistent naming scheme. (which is similar to EISA-IDs and
> pnpbios IDs too...)
> Actually, the filename "dev/isa/isadevs" does not reflect
> the fact that it is just an ID as appearing in ACPI tables,
> nothing more.
>

Than extend isapnpdevs to have another which reflects where the
ID is valid (isa,eisa,isapnp,???) and then have one file for
isa, isapnp, and eisa since many items will be shared.