Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:41:07 -0700 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small note to GENERIC for isa dependency Message-ID: <200404212241.07689.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040421.083815.108405573.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <40851021.6090706@cronyx.ru> <20040421143336.GA31427@daemon.li> <20040421.083815.108405573.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Wednesday 21 April 2004 07:38 am, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20040421143336.GA31427@daemon.li> > : whats the sense of a removable option which will only result in a > : broken kernel build, if it is removed? why not hide it or > : make a note so no one tries to remove it? > > it is an option no one has tried to remove until recently, and the > amount of code that unwisely depends on it was unknown until such > efforts were undertaken. It could be made to work, just that nobody > has climbed the hill to make it work. I do think it'd be a good idea to add a note, though. I know I tried removing it a while ago, since I know next to nothing about hardware and thought, "hey, I don't have ISA." Something complained, so I put it back in and forgot about it. A note would save people like me a little confusion. And I'm sure there have been others like me for many years, not just "recently." I haven't had ISA slots in a computer for at least 6 years. -David
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