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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile rr232x.4
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Sam Leffler wrote:
> 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

The same is basically true of rr232x, though there is no module
separation of HAL vs OSM like with ath.

Scott