Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/05/1999 15:39:56
Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de> writes:

> mycroft@netbsd.org said:
> > Modified Files:
> > 	syssrc/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/netif: 3c590.c
> > Log Message: Recognize the 3c595, and use `ex' for 3c90x now. 
> 
> I'm tempted to remove the boot interface name check from
> device_register - PCI bus/dev/fcn must be enough.
> Boot ROMs are rather longliving, and kernel drivers get obsolete
> more often (see "de" -> "tlp"), or are ambigous (like "ep"/"ex"
> for 3c90x).

I didn't know the PCI info was passed in.  Sounds fine to me.