Some are legacy drivers that need space configured in the kernel for them.
Others are newer PCI devices that can auto-attach. This stuff is being
phased-out in -current.
BSD Blood had the audacity to say:
>
> Hello.
> While configuring my kernel configuration file, I notice that certain
> entries have numbers after the driver and some don't. For example: -
>
> device psm0
> device da
>
> My questions are:-
> 1. What's the number behind the driver?
>
> 2. Why for some entries there are no numbers?
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