From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 6 07:59:15 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA28977 for current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 07:59:15 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA28968 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 07:58:58 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id AAA24079; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 00:53:03 +1000 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 00:53:03 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199504061453.AAA24079@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: LINT settings Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I think GENERIC should have all devices turned off by default and there >> should be a fancy config to turn them on. >It wouldn't be GENERIC then. It isn't generic now. All the special devices would have to be turned off for it to be generic. You would be left with isa0, fdc0, fd[0-1], wdc0, wd[0-1], npx0, sio[0-1] and lpt[0-3]. All other devices have nonstandard addresses so probing is dangerous. Unfortunately a generic machine can't be guaranteed to have a hard disk. wdc0 is safe to probe but there may be non-disk there. Bruce