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To: takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp
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Subject: Re: ACPI issues and questions (Dell Inspiron 3700) 
From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
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In message: <200203040104.KAA34309@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp>
            Takanori Watanabe <takawata@shidahara1.planet.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp> writes:
: Sorry, I've been committed the code, because some IrDA
: controller(generic one) already there, there are no such driver
: *NOW* and some people may become happy with /usr/ports/comm/birda
: port.

Traditionally, FreeBSD has done this.  Allowed a driver to claim a
device and when a new device is written that wants to use it, then the
original driver is modified to not claim it, or claim it at a lower
priority.

Warner

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