cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia64 machdep.c

[Doug Rabson]

On 4 Feb 2005, at 16:36, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <5539563a425020d35ef1878057f4f85d at qubesoft.com>
>             Doug Rabson <dfr at qubesoft.com> writes:
> :
> : On 4 Feb 2005, at 16:14, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> :
> : > In message: <84e9ba659174ea3f7c7b2930c0ae3759 at xcllnt.net>
> : >             Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> writes:
> : > : > I'm not sure if my approach is correct -- should different 
> drivers
> : > for
> : > : > the same hardware share the same devclass?
> : > :
> : > : A datapoint: sio(4) and uart(4) are different drivers for the 
> same
> : > : hardware.
> : > : They don't share the devclass.
> : >
> : > Neither do they share the same name.
> :
> : Just to make things clear, if two drivers use the same name, they 
> will
> : always share the devclass automatically (whether or not they use the
> : same variable to reference the devclass) and will allocate
> : non-conflicting unit numbers.
>
> Cool.  I'd thought I'd wound up with two instances of ed0 when I had
> different devclasses in the if_ed_isa and if_ed_pci files once upon a
> time...

This shouldn't be possible - both the driver registrations should go 
through devclass_find_internal() to find their devclasses and this 
always searches for an existing class before it creates one. If this 
happens then its a serious bug...
>