[openbeos] Re: hardware scanner
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:33:46 +0200 CEST
> Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have had this on my "please implement" list for a long time. I
> > imagine
> > devices having this so you can see:
> >
> > Device Name Driver
> > pci 1234:5678 UltraDisk Pro /dev/udp0
> >
> > Now, in one fell swoop, I can see every device on my machine and
> > what
> > driver is associated with it. The new driver API allows this; we
> > just
> > need
> > to get it implemented.
>
> While it's true it allows for this, it will, of course, only work for
> drivers that follow that new API - which is at this point neither
> finished nor documented. IOW I don't think we should push for it too
> much in the R1 time frame.
It would be easy to add an alloc/dealloc pair in the pci/usb/... bus
managers (after bumping rev number) and use them with #ifdef __HAIKU__.
That should work for pci, not for usb at least until it uses the pnp
system to represent devices.
François.
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