Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:26:29 -0500 From: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: 3Com PCI 3c590 Defective Message. ENOUGH! Message-ID: <199610081426.JAA29922@night.primate.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610080743.JAA19626@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Oct 8, 1996 09:43:27 %2B0200 References: <199610072311.AAA05817@home.said.org> <199610080743.JAA19626@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch writes: > 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. ;-) Possibly also so that the printf in the driver prints a real value instead of "%D" :-) -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu Home page: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois Software: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software
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