Re: D-BUS, anyone?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06.12.2005, at 19:58, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Well, the unplug/replug->panic issue with USB on FreeBSD is simply
>     due to the device being reattached but not being reinitialized 
> properly,
>     so the driver winds up getting really confused.  I fixed that in 
> DragonFly
>     but I'm sure there are a ton of other potential panic situations 
> that
>     we haven't covered.  Device Drivers just aren't written with the 
> concept
>     of the hardware getting ripped out from under them in mind.

If somebody is eager enough, I'm sure that this is fixable.  Just all 
drivers which could potentially be removed (usb, sata?, firewire) would 
just have to have some kind of recovery/detach.  But that's really not 
even secondary goal, and could need a proper design first.

cheers
  simon

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