From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 30 14:11:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B6E15380 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 123nmU-000Fsw-00; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 22:10:50 +0000 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 22:10:50 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: John Brooks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Leave In Kernel? Message-ID: <19991230221050.A2134@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19991230215921.713DE14CC0@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991230215921.713DE14CC0@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message