From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 09:37:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25067 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:37:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25062 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA04500; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:36:28 -0700 (PDT) To: davidg@Root.COM cc: Joe Greco , dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, SimsS@Infi.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:54:43 PDT." <199607101554.IAA04210@root.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:36:28 -0700 Message-ID: <4498.837016588@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We have no mechanism in -stable to disable devices by default. "COM3" and > "COM4" aren't 'standard', either. For one thing, the interrupt selections > for these are often switched. Actually, I have to admit that we have - I brought over bruce's disabled keyword changes this morning and used it to disable the psm0 driver. However, when I looked at disabling sio3 it was far more appealing to me to simply remove it since I can't see how anyone would need more than two serial ports for an installation. Jordan