From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 28 23:35:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A27037B72B for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:35:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA16895; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:33:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:33:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: jim@siteplus.net, hm@hcs.de, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange 3Com 3C509 probe behaviour In-Reply-To: <200103290717.AAA01270@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Chad R. Larson wrote: > Might this be an example of why disabling hints doesn't always make > things better for the user community? No, because the user doesn't know about the card's config better than the card does. Hints are only useful for devices that can't enumerate themselves. Clearly this is a bug in the identification of cards in PnP mode. I'd love to be able to duplicate this so I can fix it but all my PnP cards work just fine -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message