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To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>,
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Subject: Re: unknown PNP hardware
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Warner Losh wrote:
> : Shouldn't we just take the Linux/NetBSD information, and
> : actually identify the things instead of saying "Unknown",
> : instead, and leave them printing to encourage someone the
> : messages annoy to do the work?
> 
> I'd guess that's too much work.  Maybe someone can prove me wrong with
> trivial patches.

I think that the correct fix is to deal with the device hints
differentially in the "PnP BIOS present" case, per other posts.

Would you accept patches against 4.4-RELEASE?  I don't run
-current these days, since I need my machines to boot
reliably and do real work, other than FreeBSD hacking...

-- Terry

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