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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:19:04 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ada(4) and ahci(4) quirk printing
Message-ID:  <8EEE676F-839B-4230-9F2A-924AC41FFD6F@samsco.org>
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Your meta-commentary here is irritating.

They're called "quirks" because that is the named given to them in CAM>

Scott

On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> .. are we really debating this?
> 
> Stop calling them quirks. That sounds like something that won't mess
> up your actual runtime. It's not giving them enough "weight". They're
> more "device behaviours" or "device flags" or something. Print them
> out like that. I think that _not_ printing them out at boot time is
> insane. Doubly so if it could cause issues before you can actually run
> commands.
> 
> So if it were me, I'd print out the device quirks like we print out
> CPU flags. Ie, all the time.
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian
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