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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: William Bulley <web@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: exiting Xorg locks up 9.2-STABLE system
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, William Bulley wrote:

> Which causes me to ask: how in the heck can the GENERIC kernel have both
> "devices" as you have stated?

It does in 10-STABLE, maybe 9.x does not have that capability...

Yes, it looks that way from comparing GENERIC in both branches.