From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 14 5:38:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6199C1562A for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 05:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id VAA19052; Fri, 14 May 1999 21:38:38 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <373C0FF0.3EF8CD5F@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:58:40 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Schwenk Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC 3.2-BETA kernel and printing References: <373A5264.C568B85C@voicenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Schwenk wrote: > > I don't know what the "tty" or "net" parts do. This change was > discussed in -questions a bit after 3.1-RELEASE was released. I just > wanted to let you folks know just in case you want to include the change > in the 3.2-RELEASE. Basically, net is needed for SLIP. Because we want to support the extremely unlikely case of installing through SLIP (extremely unlikely, yes, but *NOT* inexistent! in fact, I'm almost sure there is at least one committer who keeps this change from happening because he wants to install through SLIP instead of upgrading his set up to something that have actually been in use for the past five years or so), we subject people to a seeming buggy printer driver. GENERIC is not only the default kernel. It's the kernel used during installation, thus, it must be kept this way. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness is that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message