From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 19 17:15:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA20346 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@tibet-39.ppp.hooked.net [206.80.9.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA20326 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA01292 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:15:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:15:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Higher-level kernel config? In-Reply-To: <199709192006.NAA29936@usr03.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I was just noticing that I have 3 or 4 customized config files here for > > various FreeBSD machines, and that stuff changes in the GENERIC and LINT > > files *much* more often than I change hardware in my machines. > > > I'm curious: could there ever be a case where you would not want to > include a driver for hardware that was actually in your machine? If > not, then I think dynamic autoconfiguration is the way to go. Yes, for instance I have a 3c509 in my system, and Win98 trys to use dhcp over it automatically, even though at the moment I'm not using an ethernet network. Or say if I wanted to use my external modem instead of my internal without changing my /dev/modem symlink. - alex