Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:07:17 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default setting of pcardd_flags Message-ID: <15253.2629.729785.251957@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200108311550.f7VFoUh04949@harmony.village.org> References: <200108301752.f7UHqdR27370@ptavv.es.net> <200108311550.f7VFoUh04949@harmony.village.org>
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> : I realize the pccardd as we know it will hopefully fade away before > : too long, but in the mean time, would it be reasonable to either make > : '-z' default with an option to turn it off or to put > : 'pccardd_flags="-z"' into /etc/defaults/rc.conf? > > Well, it is going to have at least an 18 month time horizon. Wasn't -z the default in 3.x? At least, I remember it being the default at some point, and I've made it the default on all my laptops. (I even backported the changes locally to my really old 2.X boxes). > : I have never found any problem with the use of this option other than > : a delay in the boot while the card in fully instantiated into the > : system. Am I missing something? > > -z move the fork from before it reads the cards to after. I don't > know if it is a good idea, since it takes so long to bring up a pccard > :-( It's a good idea (IMO), since it allows the network to come up before all the daemons that need it (sendmail in particular). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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