From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 12 17:03:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA29711 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:03:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA29705 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA09864; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 18:03:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA29204; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 18:03:35 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 18:03:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710130003.SAA29204@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. In-Reply-To: <199710122057.NAA21013@usr05.primenet.com> References: <199710122057.NAA21013@usr05.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > How will I know I have unused drivers if I don't get this message? > > > > You will make a mental note to do so when you disable them. > > What will I do if I buy a used machine with FreeBSD installed on it... > telepathically copy the notebook from the guy selling it? Now you're being silly. You boot into configuration mode, where you have access to all of the drivers that were compiled in. If 'config' mode wasn't compiled it, it doesn't matter what drivers were compiled in and disabled since you can't re-enable them in any case. Case closed. Nate