Messages in this thread | | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: PnP model | Date | Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:53:40 -0800 |
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> From: John Bradford [mailto:john@grabjohn.com] > > I think the people who want to manually configure their device's > > resources need to step up and justify why this is really necessary. > > Prototyping an embedded system, maybe, where you have devices in the > test box that won't be in the production machine. You would want them > to use resources other than those that you want the hardware which > will be present to use.
Ok fair enough. But I think the drivers should always think things are handled in a PnP manner, even if they really aren't. ;-) For example, between the stages where PnP enumerates the devices and the stage where drivers get device_add notifications as a result of that, we will be assigning the system resources to each device, but we could also implement a way at this stage for people to manually alter things. I think this is the right place to do this, as opposed to having all the drivers implement code to probe for themselves.
Thoughts?
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