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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" :-)

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Paul DuBois
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