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Date:      Mon, 01 May 2006 19:23:08 -0700
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile rr232x.4 src/sys/dev/rr232x LICENSE README amd64-elf.rr232x_lib.o.uu         array.h him.h himfuncs.h hptintf.h i386-elf.rr232x_lib.o.uu ldm.h         list.h os_bsd.c os_bsd.h osm.h osm_bsd.c rr232x_config.c ...
Message-ID:  <4456C28C.502@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <4456C244.8020509@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote:
> Sam Leffler wrote:
>> Scott Long wrote:
>>
>>> The architecture of the driver makes this a request hard to do.  I 
>>> don't like it, but there is precedence already with the ath driver.
>>
>>
>> I'm guessing you're referring to ath bailing if the hal could not be 
>> attached or the card otherwise setup?  If so the card was actually 
>> recognized and failure to complete the attach is totally separate.
>>
>> ath doesn't print anything during probe.
>>
>>     Sam
> 
> I thought that the ath hal printed a line early in boot with the
> version number.

The hal is a separate module.  It prints it's version string on module 
load.  I can put it under bootverbose if desired but it's way useful to 
tell people to send me:

dmesg|grep ath

and get the hal version and mac+phy revs for the hardware.

	Sam



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