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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:26:49 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Daryl Chance <dchance@valuedata.net>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS 
Message-ID:  <200008232326.QAA00663@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:05 PDT." <200008232109.OAA86366@bubba.whistle.com> 

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> Would you ever want "miibus" even if you're NOT using any of
> the cards that require it?
> 
> I guess you might need it to be able to KLD load one of those
> drivers.. ? But that's no argument becuse you could just have
> a miibus.ko that was a dependency of those drivers.
> 
> So why is it a separate option?

For the same reason that eg. 'pci' is still a separate option.  Config 
isn't smart enough to handle these dependancies.

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]




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