From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 22:40:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D4816A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yggdrasil.seektruth.org (D-128-208-61-58.dhcp4.washington.edu [128.208.61.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74F643D41 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:40:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@seektruth.org) Received: from yggdrasil.seektruth.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i3M5f834001008 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:41:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@seektruth.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by yggdrasil.seektruth.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i3M5f7dr001007 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers) From: David Syphers To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:41:07 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <40851021.6090706@cronyx.ru> <20040421143336.GA31427@daemon.li> <20040421.083815.108405573.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20040421.083815.108405573.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404212241.07689.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: small note to GENERIC for isa dependency X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:40:54 -0000 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