Re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

abs%absd.org@localhost (David Brownlee) writes:

>Is the ignoring of attach priority a general characteristic of
>indirect buses, and might it make sense for config to be able to
>explicitly prioritise the order the cfdata[] entries? I know uebayasi@
>has been rototilling config and wondered if he could be interested...
>:)


Explicit priorities aren't sufficient. You simply don't know
which drivers need to be compared (to select one of them) and
which can simply coexist (because they serve different hardware).

Config could add a tag, so that drivers using the same tag can
be compared, the drivers then return the attach priority like
for direct buses.

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