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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:22:36 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@itc.keio.ac.jp>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Working pcic polling mode patch (Re: Polling mode of pcic as default?) 
Message-ID:  <200001170922.BAA02947@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:24:06 MST." <200001151824.LAA42356@harmony.village.org> 

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> In message <86g0vzgrp5.wl@ringo.FromTo.Cc> Tatsumi Hosokawa writes:
> : Following patch sets polling mode as default.
> : How about it?
> 
> I'd rather not make things default by a boot loader config variable.
> I'd rather have things not wired to an IRQ in the GENERIC config
> file.  Since the IRQ can now be set from userconfig, I'd like to get
> rid of the boot loader variable for this in time.

Definitely not.  The IRQ should be determined by examining the machine's 
actual resource configuration, with a manual override from the loader.  
Of all the possible sources of IRQ configuration information, the kernel 
configuration file is the most likely to be wrong.

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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