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[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20040223150304.F66630 at pooker.samsco.home>
            Scott Long <scottl at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: Good planning now is worth a ton of #ifdefs later.  I support what PHK is
: aiming for here.  I don't think that you really are away of the
: significant differences between 4.x and 5.x and how messy it has become to
: support both with the same source.

Supporting the tip of both isn't that horrible (I do it with OLDCARD),
but supporting all N versions of 4.x is ugly.

: The 'MPSAFE' and 'FAST' lines will probably be either reversed or put
: under bootverbose before 5.3.  It would be nice if there was a way to
: express these flags from within the probe line, but our driver model
: doesn't suppor that at all.  Tearing up the API for such a cosmetic
: change probably isn't worthwhile right now, but might be considered if
: we ever get a multi-pass newbus framwork.

If we printed the probe information AFTER attach succeeded, then we
could do it...

Warner