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From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
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Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile rr232x.4
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Scott Long wrote:
> Sam Leffler wrote:
>> Scott Long wrote:
>>
>>> The architecture of the driver makes this a request hard to do.  I 
>>> don't like it, but there is precedence already with the ath driver.
>>
>>
>> I'm guessing you're referring to ath bailing if the hal could not be 
>> attached or the card otherwise setup?  If so the card was actually 
>> recognized and failure to complete the attach is totally separate.
>>
>> ath doesn't print anything during probe.
>>
>>     Sam
> 
> I thought that the ath hal printed a line early in boot with the
> version number.

The hal is a separate module.  It prints it's version string on module 
load.  I can put it under bootverbose if desired but it's way useful to 
tell people to send me:

dmesg|grep ath

and get the hal version and mac+phy revs for the hardware.

	Sam