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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:28:19 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        will@csociety.org
Subject:   Re: Fix make release for 4-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20040119092819.GA41159@FreeBSD.org.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20040118235148M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20040118141444.GG51708@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040118235148M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:51:48PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
>=20
> will> This patch removes the parallel port support and USB mouse and
> will> firewire ethernet.
>=20
> My three comments about this:
>=20
> 1) It's hard to decide that we can say goodbye to plip (plip is not
>    provided as a kernel module), since it is supported on 4.x-RELEASE
>    fora long time.
>=20
> 2) Removing 'fwe' shouldn't work here; it is already removed from the
>    boot kernel :-)  See src/release/i386/drivers.conf.
>=20
> 3) USB mouse driver can be moved to mfsroot.flp as a kernel module.
>    drivers.conf and associated tools will do that.  It seems that
>    there's enough space to put another modules on mfsroot.flp, so move
>    it to there makes no functional changes.
>=20
> Anyway, thank you for trying to fix this issue.
>=20
Maybe it's time for drivers.flp to appear on RELENG_4?  If someone
could MFC the support to sysinstall, I could help with release/
bits.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org

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