Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 15:55:07 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option Message-ID: <199511051455.PAA12893@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199511051354.AAA05773@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 6, 95 00:54:28 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Bruce Evans writes: > > >> >I'll go along with that. "Not found" also scares off people who don't > >> >realize that it's a normal state of affairs. > >> > >> It's only normal (and not good) for GENERIC and other bloated kernels. > > >Would you like to hazard a guess about what percentage of people > >really, *really* customize their kernels? Even if you do, you might > > Low. 20%? Well, I suppose it's a guess, but what do other people think? Remember, this is a group of people who *understand* the system. I'd guess that not more than 1% of the users out there rebuild their system, and those that do do it mainly because they have a problem with the generic kernel. > >need to keep things in that you don't have (I haven't found a clean > >way to remove CD-ROM support, for example). You're right, though, > >that doesn't make it good. > > I would at least disable the drivers for hardware that doesn't exist. > This doesn't reduce the space bloat but it makes driver probes more > reliable and turns "Not found" warnings into errors. Sure, but how? If I remove CD-ROM support for my dickless workstations, I get unresolved references from other modules which do need to stay. Sure, I could go in and throw in some #ifdefs--maybe. But that's going beyond a simple kernel rebuild. Or are you saying "keep CD-ROM support, but remove the drivers"? That might work--I haven't tried it, because I don't like playing trial and error, and I don't have time to analyse the sources. Greg
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199511051455.PAA12893>