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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
From: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:05:17 +0000
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf DEFAULTS GENERIC 
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"M. Warner Losh" writes:
>You shouldn't modify or deleting DEFAULTS.  That's a really bad idea.
>nodevice foo is much better.  Mark should be hassleed for recommending
>the former :-)

Yes. Indeed he (er, I) should.  I'm going to blame this on a combination
of not enough tea and an inability to engage brain before using mouth.

The real solution is to use "nodevice foo" (like "nodevice io") if you
prefer to load a default item that is also available as a loadable module.

M
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