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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:56:54 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        smp@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Testers please! 
Message-ID:  <22736.937832214@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:41:19 %2B0800." <19990920124119.509B71CC5@overcee.netplex.com.au> 

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In message <19990920124119.509B71CC5@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes
:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, noted.  I changed to to fail the probe but still use the hardware.
>
>If intpm is probed first (the smbus driver), your probe won't even get
>called. I think we need an early quirks or hooks handler in the pci probes
>to handle stuff like this.  For example, we have hooks fixing up a handful
>of wierd bios misconfigurations, collecting these together via a quirks
>table or whatever would also give a convenient place for you to hook this
>sort of thing into, and without it being dependent on link or probe order.

sigh...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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