From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 11:15:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03663 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:15:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03645; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:15:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27496; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:15:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd027361; Mon Nov 23 12:15:34 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA23348; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:15:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811231915.MAA23348@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Linksys NIC, was: Re: de ethernet driver -- another puzzle To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:15:06 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kaleb@ics.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811210510.VAA00363@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Nov 20, 98 09:10:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I also now know why the de probe doesn't print out a message when the > > probe fails. Which is not to say that I think that's good. On the > > contrary, I think it's bad. C'est la vie. > > Printing out an error message when a PCI match fails would be stupid; > every PCI device is (currently) presented to every PCI driver until one > claims it. Printing a message when the match failed ("no, not for me") > would produce a useless spew of garbage. You need a pseudo-device at the end of the inquiry chain to catch id's that haven't been caught by the real drivers, and to print out a message ("PCI: no driver: id xxx ..."). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message