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Date:      Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:19:38 -0700
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Harry Coin <harrycoin@qconline.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: mss.c pcm fix to ' attach returned 6 ' load failure for  v5.x acpi and up
Message-ID:  <42DBE4AA.3010708@root.org>
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Harry Coin wrote:
> At 07:15 AM 7/18/2005 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> Finally, it may be that
>> ISA_PNP_PROBE() needs to return a string version of the PNP ID that was
>> actually probed so that drivers can do extra tests.
> 
> 
> I support this because chip vendors put chip revision levels, OEM ID's 
> and other stuff in those strings.  In the case of the CS4236B you have 
> to write another driver to support another 'control' multifunction 
> device to get access to some of it otherwise.
> 
> Harry

The ACPI_PNP_PROBE method already returns the string of the ID that 
matched since strings like ACPI0002 can't be encoded in the EISA PNPID 
format.  However, I didn't think that would be necessary for ISA devices.

-- 
Nate



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