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Date:      Tue, 04 Jul 2000 13:32:55 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys bus.h bus_private.h src/sys/kern subr_bus.c 
Message-ID:  <13364.962710375@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2000 04:30:32 PDT." <200007041130.EAA02524@mass.osd.bsdi.com> 

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In message <200007041130.EAA02524@mass.osd.bsdi.com>, Mike Smith writes:

>Firstly - I don't buy that you can't uniquely identify the device up 
>front.  This would be a violation of the PCI spec, just for starters.

It *is* a violation of the PCI spec, but that's just a fact of life,
not all hardware lives up to what the standards intended.

But even with the identification problem aside, I still have seen no
acceptable way to attach one driver to two new-bus devices...

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