Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 22:10:50 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: John Brooks <john@day-light.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Leave In Kernel? Message-ID: <19991230221050.A2134@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19991230215921.713DE14CC0@hub.freebsd.org> References: <19991230215921.713DE14CC0@hub.freebsd.org>
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John Brooks wrote:
> I am building a custom kernel for a colocated email, ftp, & web server.
> Since there will never be anything connected to any of the serial or
> parallel ports, is there any compelling reason to leave them in the kernel?
> Will pulling them out have any detrimental repurcussions someplace else?
I don't think so. One of my machines doesn't have any serial ports in
the kernel, and I'm sure I've run machines without parallel ports in the
past.
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