Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 22:19:22 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: des@des.no, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nikolas.britton@gmail.com Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <20070405201921.GA25415@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070405.140150.59738522.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <86zm5nrllc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <ef10de9a0704051056o55ea757di3d85b79f8503619b@mail.gmail.com> <20070405.140150.59738522.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:01:50PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote.. > > So I come back to the question of why we have external devices from > > 1987 still floating around in the kernel and more importantly why > > these devices are enabled by default in the GENERIC kern conf? > > Because they work and are necessary. If you don't know that, I'll > echo Kris' "Thank you for the input" and be done with it. By far the best answer to this thread-aka-time-sink I have seen sofar. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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