Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dennis wrote:
> > At 09:54 AM 5/27/00 +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dennis writes:
> > >> : My 4.0 system doesnt probe ISA devices on my system.
> > >> :
> > >> : Whats the trick? Is there a config requirement with old-style drivers?
> > >>
> > >> They probe great for me. what, specifically, isn't probing?
> > >
> > >He is probably talking about their own driver. In that case you have to
> > >add it to /sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.* or bite the bullet and new-busify
> > >it.
[..]
> > isa_compat.h? LOL...what college freshman thought of that? Is it really
> > that difficult to have the prefix_probe() function called based on the
> > config file?
>
> This is just a list of drivers using the legacy apis. Since no new drivers
> will be using those apis, this file will gradualy disappear and certainly
> no new drivers will be added to it.
We originally did it that way to avoid having to do a massive driver API
change at the cutover. Since all the important drivers are converted
and there are not that many left I took some time and redid it to use a
similar approach that we used on the PCI driver shims. Now the isa_compat.h
table is gone, but a minor driver API change is required to support it.
Cheers,
-Peter
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