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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:22:57AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> GENERIC doesn't *have* wired down devices..

Yes I know.

> If they boot off a GENERIC kernel, the device wiring (which doesn't
> exist) and numbering is exactly the same.

I guess I'm the only one that starts out with a GENERIC file and
commenting out rather than deleting stuff I don't want.  And I guess I'm
the only one that keeps my kernel file synced with GENERIC (again with
things I don't want commented out).
 
> I can't imagine anyone going to the trouble of adding wiring to a custom
> kernel without removing drivers they don't use.

Well I guess you're talking about me.  I merge in changes from GENERIC to
my kernel config file, commenting them out in the process.  When I
switched from `ncr' to `sym' on my NFS server I forgot to change all the
wiring down.  You can guess my CCD with /usr/src on it wasn't too happy
when the drive IDs changed.

While what I did was stupid, we are talking -STABLE here.  I thought we
wanted to keep minimal the number of possible disruptions and messups
that could occur.


> Also, using sym instead of ncr stops the dreaded 'ncr + fxp panic' in 3.x for
> most folks suffering from it.

Does it??  Paul Sabb while at Hotmail said it didn't.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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