Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Mar 1996 23:50:30 -0500 (EST) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Resource Management |
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On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Andrew Mileski wrote:
> >Andrew Mileski (dmtech@magi.com) wrote: > >> 4) Is there *ANY* particular thing that would make your > >> life easier when dealing with hardware resources? > > > >Yes, a list of all drivers currently registred/compiled into the kernel, > >together with a list of configured drivers attached to found hardwa re would > >be nice. > > > >Greetings > >Bernd > >-- > > (OO) -- Bernd_Eckenfels@Wittumstrasse13.76646Bruchsal.de -- > > I think this is a GREAT idea - but it strays outside my > interests in hardware resource management and Plug-and-Play. > > It would be *REAL* easy to do this, other than the fact that > it touches so much code.
Hmm. This seems very similar to a comment I made earlier about being able to ask any running driver for it's parameter list (in the same format that you would feed the kernel command line.) A mechanism for iterating over the drivers could also query each driver for that information.
> -- Andrew E. Mileski -- > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Located in Canada's Capital: Ottawa! (EST) > mailto:dmtech@magi.com http://www.magi.com/~dmtech/ > >
-- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
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