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Date:      Sun, 03 Mar 2002 17:54:17 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@express.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700)
Message-ID:  <3C82D3C9.C7631074@mindspring.com>
References:  <200203032107.g23L7I000782@mass.dis.org>

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Michael Smith wrote:
> > May be it is time to commit this line ?
> 
> No.  This would mean that sio(4) will attach to any IrDa port and
> preclude an IrDa-specific driver from doing so.


I'd be happy to have one of these, if you have an IrDa
driver lying around for FreeBSD, and haven't committed
it yet.

> If any variation of this patch is committed, at the very least sio(4)
> should return a lower preference than 0 for it's match.

This makes sense; then if anyone ever writes an IrDa
driver for FreeBSD some time in the next six years,
it will displace the serial driver, which at least
will work today -- with this patch.

-- Terry

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