From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 16:49:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server03.gw.total-web.net (server03.gw.total-web.net [209.186.12.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0CA814CD4 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:49:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jtilly@gw.total-web.net) Received: (qmail 5459 invoked from network); 31 Dec 1999 00:49:29 -0000 Received: from ip-165-157.gw.total-web.net (HELO frodo) (209.187.165.157) by server03.gw.total-web.net with SMTP; 31 Dec 1999 00:49:29 -0000 Message-ID: <016201bf5341$06618fe0$0301a8c0@lothlorien.com> From: "Jesse Tilly" To: "Ben Smithurst" , "John Brooks" Cc: References: <19991230215921.713DE14CC0@hub.freebsd.org> <19991230221050.A2134@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Leave In Kernel? Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:41:43 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 None of my machines run with serial or parallel ports and everything related has been commented in the kernel configs. No problems, and plenty of free IRQs for network cards! Jesse - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Smithurst" To: "John Brooks" Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 2:10 PM Subject: Re: Leave In Kernel? > John Brooks wrote: > > > I am building a custom kernel for a colocated email, ftp, & web > > server. Since there will never be anything connected to any of > > the serial or parallel ports, is there any compelling reason to > > leave them in the kernel? Will pulling them out have any > > detrimental repurcussions someplace else? > > I don't think so. One of my machines doesn't have any serial ports > in the kernel, and I'm sure I've run machines without parallel > ports in the past. > > -- > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOGwl9QmK+av4UFSjEQLy2wCdHMx/jDmDbWODqKR90CKjOs6o0pMAniMf zrIe7JNdLUm8s4zA+Rz7F5CT =g9gO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message