Re: pcidevs.h, is it worth it?

["Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sascha Wildner wrote:
> Where's the gain in using symbolic names that contain the vendor and 
> product name?

Preference order, probing and attachment in NetBSD's autoconfigure 
framework with symbolic names aids debugging; consider having multiple 
drivers for one device (like em(4) and wm(4) in NetBSD), which makes it 
easier to share a database of applicable cards.

Cheers,
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        Thomas E. Spanjaard
        tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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