Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:22:22 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Steve Roome <steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/22124, a patch to pciconf Message-ID: <p05010400b6be29ed4a1c@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20010215154913.P97929@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <20010215154913.P97929@moose.bri.hp.com>
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At 3:49 PM +0000 2/15/01, Steve Roome wrote: >Is there any chance someone could take a look at the patch >I supplied for pciconf and perhaps let me have some feedback >on it? > >It's just to clean up the output a little and add the ability >to identify better any non supported chipsets. I thought that >this would be helpful when trying to install FreeBSD and not >knowing which devices were which. > >I'm sure someone will tell me they don't like the way it's >done and I could put the data in tables instead of switch >statements, but whatever, just wondered if there was a chance >of some feedback on it? Were there any replies to this? The PR looks plausibly helpful to me, but I don't do any work in the pciconf area to say if it should be done some other way. I do like the idea of having the option of printing out info as "real words" (when known), instead of just a bunch of numbers that the user is supposed to understand the significance of... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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