From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 13 02:35:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA06425 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 02:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr08.primenet.com (tlambert@usr08.primenet.com [206.165.6.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA06420 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 02:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA22143; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 02:35:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710130935.CAA22143@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:35:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hoek@hwcn.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Alex" at Oct 12, 97 07:17:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > So people who don't compile their own kernels (ie. the people > > affected by jkh's change) get to choose? :) > > Or with #ifndef one could make it go the other way. I'd prefer the first > myself, as if something's disabled, I don't want to know about it, as I > probably disabled it in the first place. If I disabled it, I removed it from the config file -- or should have. If not, I want to be reminded to do so, in order to recover the RAM used in loading the kernel. If you can coelesce free kernel memory (requires a "section pageable" attribute) and recover it automatically, then I give you the point. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.