Re: User asks: can we decouple device vendor IDs from drivers?

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Murray
"M. Warner Losh" writes: > The problem with decoupling things entirely from the drivers is that > many drivers will say "if I have this revision of that card, do this > workaround." or "if I'm this or newer, I have this feature" both of > which are broken by the kernel forcing the driver to service

Re: RFC: proposed new builtin for /bin/sh (associative arrays)

2003-11-01 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-31 21:16 +0100]: > Maybe I'm not understanding your intentions, but isn't that > already possible using "set | sed -n '/^foo_/s/=.*//p'"? > > Or do you want to avoid external programs? In that case it > would be a little bit more difficult to do, but i

Re: User asks: can we decouple device vendor IDs from drivers?

2003-11-01 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : "M. Warner Losh" writes: : > The problem with decoupling things entirely from the drivers is that : > many drivers will say "if I have this revision of that card, do this : > workaround." or "if I'm this or newer,

Re: O_NOACCESS?

2003-11-01 Thread Terry Lambert
andi payn wrote: > Now hold on. The standard (by which I you mean POSIX? or one of the UNIX > standards?) doesn't say that you can't have an additional flag called > O_NOACCESS with whatever value and meaning you want. A strictly conforming implementation can not expose things into the namespace t

Re: O_NOACCESS?

2003-11-01 Thread Terry Lambert
"M. Warner Losh" wrote: > Rewind units on tape drives? If there's no access check done, and I > open the rewind unit as joe-smoe? The close code is what does the > rewind, and you don't have enough knowledge to know if the tape was > opened r/w there. Which brings up the idea of passing fp->fd_f

question about user space addressed, mmap, and getting phys address

2003-11-01 Thread Sean McNeil
Hi everyone, Sorry I am not on the list, but I was hoping someone here might be able to help me. I have a design that I cannot change that does the following: 1) Calls mmap on a chunk of memory that the device driver uses to DMA to a video decoder. 2) This chunk of memory is treated as several

dhclient & dynamic DNS updates

2003-11-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
I'm having problems getting dhclient to do dynamic DNS updates. I'm wondering if anyone else has gotten this working. I want dhclient to dynamically update a forward zone. I can't have the server do it, as I don't control the server (cable modem setup). I know I have named set up right, as I ca

Re: O_NOACCESS?

2003-11-01 Thread andi payn
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:39, Terry Lambert wrote: > andi payn wrote: > > Now hold on. The standard (by which I you mean POSIX? or one of the UNIX [...] > A strictly conforming implementation can not expose things into > the namespace that are not defined by the standard to be in the > namespace, wh

Re: O_NOACCESS?

2003-11-01 Thread andi payn
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:44, Terry Lambert wrote: > "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > > Rewind units on tape drives? If there's no access check done, and I > > open the rewind unit as joe-smoe? The close code is what does the > > rewind, and you don't have enough knowledge to know if the tape was > > ope

Samsung SPH-I500 (Palm/Phone) CDMA Modem

2003-11-01 Thread Larry Rosenman
I bought one of these a while back, and just got a cable that I can carry with my Laptop. I get the following: Nov 1 19:57:31 lerlaptop kernel: ucom0: SAMSUNG Electronics Co.,Ltd. SAMSUNG CDMA Technologies, rev 1.01/0.00, addr 2, iclass 2/2 Nov 1 19:57:31 lerlaptop kernel: ucom0: data interface