How to disable devices in -current / 5.2-BETA?

[Scott Long]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <20031202112236.GA77263 at fit.vutbr.cz>
>             Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vutbr.cz> writes:
> :
> : Hello,
> :   I'm trying to boot 5.2-BETA with aac, which panics as has been
> : reported here and I can confirm panics too. I would like to try
> : boot with aac disabled for now, but it does not work for me.
> : There is suggested in device.hints(5), that I can do
> : set hint.driver.unit.disabled="1"
> : however it does not work for me - neither in loader prompt, nor
> : in /boot/device.hints.
> :
> : Exactly, I'm trying
> : hint.aac.0.disabled="1"
> : in /boot/device.hints or
> : set hint.aac.0.disabled="1"
> : in loader prompt.
>
> You can't disable pci devices.  You lose.
>
> Warner
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The aac problem will be fixed soon, I'm just reviewing it for any other
hidden problems.

However, having a general mechanism for disabling newbus devices would be
really nice.

Scott