[haiku-development] Re: pci device reservation (OSS vs native)

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I thought about adding some way to reserve devices to avoid the OSS
> vs
> native driver issue instead of blacklisting drivers in OSS, while
> some
> would actually work for more devices (they also check subsystem
> IDs)...
> And also bumping the bus manager version number to 1.1 as it already
> has one extra call added by Marcus.
>
> That would probably help solving conflicts between old style and new
> style drivers in the future (though we might want to allow some
> devices
> to be shared maybe ?).
>
> Something like attached (unfinished).

I would actually not put this into the PCI manager as it duplicates a
mechanism that is already there in the new device manager. Since this
would only be a temporary solution anyway, maybe you could have dummy
device nodes for legacy drivers that are attached to the PCI device
nodes instead?

Bye,
   Axel.

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