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Date:      Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:17:17 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?
Message-ID:  <j03skd$qp2$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E251C96.5050105@FreeBSD.org>
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On 19/07/2011 07:56, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> On 19.07.2011 1:22, Scott Long wrote:
>>>> Btw, I *HATE* the "chip" and "card" identifiers used in pciconf.  Can we change it to emit
>>>> the standard (sub)vendor/(sub)device terminology?
>>>
>>> Oh, yeah.  I hate that too.  Would you want them as 4 separate entities or to just rename the
>>> labels to 'devid' and 'subdevid'?
>>>
>>
>> If we're going to change it, might as well break it down into 4 fields.  Maybe we retain the old
>> format under a legacy switch and/or env variable for users that have tools that parse the output
>> (cough yahoo cough).
>
> Hi, Scott
>
> i think for keeping POLA it is better add new option to make new output format.

This is a too strict interpretation of POLA! If the change is done for 
better compliance with standards and it is done in a major version (i.e. 
9.0 or 10.0), it's not a matter of POLA (otherwise, the change will 
never happen).





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