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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa isa.c
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>> Ick.  Instead of fixing the problems, simply don't report the
>> symptoms?

>Not surprisingly, I thought the same thing for awhile before deciding
>to commit this change.  My final rationale was that this problem had
>persisted for several months, was *not* very informational in nature
>(the sound code works, it just gripes like this) and if nobody was
>going to fix it soon then I might as well shut the silly thing up.

The message also reports problems with floppy DMA.  isa_dmadone()
isn't called when a command is aborted.  This problem has persisted
for several years.  Perhaps the messages should be more annoying so
that things get fixed faster.

Bruce