From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 23 02:22:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA02237 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 02:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA02216 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 02:22:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA20633 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 11:22:33 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA01344 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 11:22:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA22623 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:25:28 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512230925.KAA22623@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: device npx0 (was Re: your mail) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:25:28 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512220218.TAA03750@hemi.com> from "Ade Barkah" at Dec 21, 95 07:18:55 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Ade Barkah wrote: > > > Well, for one thing, the npx0 device is not optional, you _must_ put it > > back in. You don't have a choice on that. > > Maybe programs like config should check for non-optional devices > and warn the user if any are missing. Did anybody ever attempt to declare npx as `standard' instead of `optional' in sys/i386/conf/files.i386? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)