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Date:      Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:40:45 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        phk@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_sis.c if_sisreg.h
Message-ID:  <20030903.194045.71089689.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200309030740.h837e4qS056204@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200309030740.h837e4qS056204@repoman.freebsd.org>

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In message: <200309030740.h837e4qS056204@repoman.freebsd.org>
            Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> writes:
:   We can't update the device description in attach (why not ?), so
:   we device_print() what we find.

You can.  However, we use the description after PROBE, and changing it
in attach doesn't cause us to go back and unprint it, so it does
little good.  We could fix this, and the resource allocation issues,
by printing things after a successful attach, but that would likely
confuse people.

Warner



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