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Expand cryptic comment with inforation I've learned in the mean time

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about CIS3/CIS4, including studies I've done on my large collection of
PC Cards bought off e-bay over the years since the original entry as
well as conversations I've had at conferences.
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@ -88,10 +88,18 @@ struct pccard_product {
};
/**
* Note: There's no cis3 or cis4 reported for NOMATCH / pnpinfo events for pccard
* It's unclear if we actually need that for automatic loading or not. These stirngs
* are informative, according to the standard, but I have a dim memory of using these
* strings to match things, though I can't find the example right now.
* Note: There's no cis3 or cis4 reported for NOMATCH / pnpinfo events for
* pccard It's unclear if we actually need that for automatic loading or
* not. These stirngs are informative, according to the standard. Some Linux
* drivers match on them, for example. However, FreeBSD's hardware probing is a
* little different than Linux so it turns out we don't need them. Some cards
* use CIS3 or CIS4 for a textual representation of the MAC address. In short,
* they aren't needed even though our friends in Linux have them. It is my
* belief that all the entries in Linux don't actually need to be separate there
* either, but it's hard to eliminate them and retest on old, possibly rare,
* hardware so they persist. Despite years of collecting ~300 different PC Cards
* off E-Bay, I've not been able to find any that need CIS3/CIS4 to select which
* device attaches.
*/
#define PCCARD_PNP_DESCR "D:#;V32:manufacturer;V32:product;Z:cisvendor;Z:cisproduct;"
#define PCCARD_PNP_INFO(t) \