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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


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