From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 8 00:58:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06034 for current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 00:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA06026 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 00:58:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA28812; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:53:13 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA23372; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:53:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA19626; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:43:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610080743.JAA19626@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 3Com PCI 3c590 Defective Message. ENOUGH! To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:43:27 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jake@said.org (Jake Dias) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610072311.AAA05817@home.said.org> from Jake Dias at "Oct 8, 96 00:11:50 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jake Dias wrote: > Someone suggested that only a small number of early cards _really_ had this > problem so the test can be removed and further that really the test is > wrong anyway. No, it should not go away. 3Com explicitly requests all driver writers to issue a message of this kind if they detect the broken adapter, since there's no usable software workaround. However, somebody should fix the test so that only broken cards actually emit the message. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)