From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 07:15:40 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 B7E5D16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmsrelay01.mx.net (cmsrelay01.mx.net [165.212.11.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4917543D54 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:15:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from uadvg128.cms.usa.net (165.212.11.128) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 22 Apr 2004 14:15:38 -0000 Received: from optimator.noacks.org [66.136.23.165] by uadvg128.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/noackjr@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.13N) with ESMTP id 360iDVoPj0009M28; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:15:35 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 66.136.23.165 AUTH noackjr@usa.net optimator.noacks.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E016164; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:15:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 42405-05; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:15:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from compgeek.noacks.org (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEB16139; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:15:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from alumni.rice.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by compgeek.noacks.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3MEFWSP053199; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:15:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Message-ID: <4087D384.1010805@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:15:32 -0500 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040412) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Syphers References: <40851021.6090706@cronyx.ru> <20040421143336.GA31427@daemon.li> <20040421.083815.108405573.imp@bsdimp.com> <200404212241.07689.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200404212241.07689.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small note to GENERIC for isa dependency X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu 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 14:15:40 -0000 David Syphers wrote: > 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 The note was added a week ago (revision 1.400): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-April/022284.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC Jon