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To: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys bus.h bus_private.h src/sys/kern subr_bus.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 19:36:42 BST."
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:53:51 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0007031848170.21619-100000@localhost>, Nick Hibma wri
tes:
>
>I take offence to this message. The arrogance displayed in the last
>paragraph is astonishing.
>
>Second, I require that the manpage for device_set_softc contains a
>sentence that indicates that the softc needs only be set in cases where
>the softc provided by newbus does not give the driver the required
>flexiblity (*).

You're wasting your breath.  You can require all you want, you can
take all the offence you want: "it ain't gonna make no difference".

FreeBSD delivers tools, not policy.  This includes the policy on
softc use in device drivers you seem to advocate.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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