Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:52:02 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: Daryl Chance <dchance@valuedata.net>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS Message-ID: <200008232252.QAA52995@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:09:47 PDT." <200008232209.PAA35866@bubba.whistle.com> References: <200008232209.PAA35866@bubba.whistle.com>
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In message <200008232209.PAA35866@bubba.whistle.com> Archie Cobbs writes: : Warner Losh writes: : > : So why is it a separate option? : > : > because it is a driver. Why is pci a separate driver? While most : > computers have it, not all do. Likewise with miibus. : : Ah.. but this analogy is not exact, because (for example) : "device ed0" does not require PCI, wheras all of these miibus : drivers do.. "device xe" does require pccard, otherwise it fails. "device wi" requires pccard, but will silently fail if no pccard in kernel. : But you're probably right, since it's a driver maybe that's : a good enough reason. I think that it is a minor flaw in our config system. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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