In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Garrett
Wollman writes:
: <<On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:12:14 -0800, Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
:
: > This is definitely a bad idea; IMHO we should only do this when the
: > resource is actually activated (and obviously free it when deactivated).
:
: Absolutely! As I keep trying to explain to people, that's why there
: *is* a separate activate function (or one of the reasons, anyway).
Yes. There's lots of cool things that one can do with this. I know
that the pccard code, both old and new, deferrs the actual programming
of the bridge until a resource is activated (except for IRQ, which it
further deferrs until the interrupt handler is setup).
Warner
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