FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Automatic hardware installation / system updates

["François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>]

> mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > What about appending attributes to each driver, for example PCI 
> > > and Vendor ID...that could at least solve this problem...right?
> > No one has this information except the driver and (maybe) the PCI 
> > bus 
> > manager, AFAIK. 
> 
> Note, this will be done differently in Haiku - for the drivers that 
> use 
> the new driver architecture, it knows exactly which driver servers 
> which device and hardware (and vice versa).
> In R5 there is also this ioctl(): B_GET_DRIVER_FOR_DEVICE
> Haven't tested it yet, but it's supposed to return the path to the 
> driver for a specific device.

Yes it does:

[revol@patrick ~/devel]$ ./getdriver /dev/misc/sysinfo
driver: /boot/home/config/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/sysinfo
[revol@patrick ~/devel]$ ./getdriver /dev/null
driver: null

François.