Subject: Re: pchb.c
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/10/1998 10:28:36
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 16:54:03 +0100 
 Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl> wrote:

 > Yes, it is essentially useless to do this. Since the idea behind
 > pchb.c is to do some special case frobbing for PCI chipsets that
 > need it, the original thought must have been something like
 > "if we can't even match the ID, let's not bother with attach".
 > 
 > I think I'll remove all those matches the next time pchb.c needs
 > a change.

Actually, I would say - "If you can't find a specific match, then match
the class/subclass, so you can at least print a verbose description."

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