Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:57:21 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small note to GENERIC for isa dependency Message-ID: <40851021.6090706@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040419183108.L47248@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040414155525.GD562@jenny.daemon.li> <20040419183108.L47248@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Doug White wrote: >On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > > > >>hi! >> >>i just noticed that removing 'device isa' with 'device npx' still enabled >>results in a break of the kernel build. >> >>as i did not find any hint in GENERIC or NOTES i was wondering whether i should >>wrtie a short hint and if so, how it should look like. >> >> > >You want to do the same thing for pci? There's a LOT of stuff that >depends on that! :) I don't think that trying to add comments to keep >people from doing really dumb thing with config files is doing to fix the > > Ok. If I don't have ISA at all, what is bad in idea to remove it from config file? You may argue that I can do the same if I have no PCI. Yes, you are right. But ISAless machine are more common nowadays, than PCIless (especially running current). rik >problem. Theres a reason we have a whole section in the Handbook on >kernel configuration, and we still have people doing dumb things :) > >Also note there is a "don't remove this" comment on npx, which you would >think keep people from screwing around with it to much. > > >
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