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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:20:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PNPBIOS + Dell PowerEdge = panic() 
Message-ID:  <200001181620.LAA25082@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200001180112.RAA02848@mass.cdrom.com>
References:  <20000116002113.B75768@jade.chc-chimes.com> <200001180112.RAA02848@mass.cdrom.com>

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<<On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:12:14 -0800, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> This is definitely a bad idea; IMHO we should only do this when the 
> resource is actually activated (and obviously free it when deactivated).

Absolutely!  As I keep trying to explain to people, that's why there
*is* a separate activate function (or one of the reasons, anyway).

-GAWollman

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