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On Thursday 26 February 2004 01:56 pm, Julian Elischer wrote:
> is there a way of getting rid of the "fluff" entries?
> ( a flag on teh dev_attach saying "I am a fluff entry, do not show me"?)

What is a "fluff" entry?  Above you threw out the PCI busses and left the  
foo-PCI bridges.  By the way, I think that the sysctl should be a program 
interface.  Humans should use devinfo(8).

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