Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:05:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hoek@hwcn.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. Message-ID: <199710130005.RAA02085@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012172403.2711D-100000@localhost> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Oct 12, 97 05:32:23 pm
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> > There's always scroll-lock and dmesg (heh: "Are there no work houses, > > are there no prisons?"). > > You check dmesg for each and every time you boot your computer? > Indeed, you are a better man than I! No, I check it if I have unexplained problems. Besides, I learned to read the significant stuff scrolling at 19.2 a long time ago... 8-). > Besides, only a schmuck would take action A, which has an unknown > result, and assume that reaction C is unrelated. :) (Where A is > disabling devices he doesn't recognize and C is a missing hdd :). I'd agree, except for "device npx0 ..." shoots a whole in your thesis. It claims to be optional (by having a line in the configuration file, it is implied that it need not be configured in a minimal kernel). If the entire source tree were internally consistent, then you'd have a case. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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