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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:47:06 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pci.c pcisupport.c pcivar.h 
Message-ID:  <8947.960886026@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:48:31 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006130947450.68954-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> 

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>As I said on in a reply to committers, this is probably best handled by
>the nomatch method of the pci driver.

Completely unrelated to where we do this, I have had a fair number of
people ask me why we don't say stuff like:

"Found <FOOcorp magicchip 1242> Configure \"blaha\" driver in your kernel"

I can see all the bloat arguments, but I have to say that the idea
has some merit...

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