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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:44:17 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>
Cc:        "Jacques A . Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, dfr@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/tdfx Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200006261644.KAA19705@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:47:17 EDT." <20000626114717.C61686@cokane.yi.org> 
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In message <20000626114717.C61686@cokane.yi.org> Coleman Kane writes:
: I chose tdfx originally
: because you cannot put a number in the device name inside the kernel.

This is false.  We at Timing Solutions have about two dozen device
drivers named "tsc2050", "tsc2152B", etc.  We've had these since
approx 2.2 or so and they work even on -current.  It is one reason
that the hints code does device.unit rather than running the two
together.

Warner


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