From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 3 1:22:59 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8417637B72D; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 01:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f338Mi732375; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:22:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:22:44 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Warner Losh , Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pccard Makefile.inc Message-ID: <20010403112244.B29871@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: Maxim Sobolev , Warner Losh , Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200104022132.f32LWYq15642@harmony.village.org> <3AC9828A.945262D0@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AC9828A.945262D0@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:58:02AM +0300 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:58:02AM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message Bruce Evans writes: > > : But this can't be used early in the boot process, since it is not > > : in the root partition. It is normally in the same partition as > > : shared libraries. > > > > If you copy pccardd to /sbin you can then mount /usr on a pccard > > device. I've had a number of people with just this setup and there's > > no reason to break them. > > I agree with Warner here. Having pccardd/pccardc statically linked > is certainly *A GOOD THING* and could help when libc is hosed or > unavailable. Recently it allowed me to restore my laptop during > libc madness. Otherwise I would be unable to bring up network interface > and copy libc compiled on another machine over network. > In this case, you would probably need NOSHARED=yes in /etc/make.conf :-) > Actually I think we should consider moving it into /sbin as it is a > critical component for notebook users. > This is what I suggested in the first place, but it was rejected. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message