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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:35:37 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again..
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011218113537.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200112172205.aa56337@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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On 17-Dec-2001 Ian Dowse wrote:
>  Applying this causes a large number of local variables throughout
>  the NFS code to become unused, and it also generates a lot of
>  `address of register variable X requested' compiler warnings.
>  Since those require purely mechanical changes, that part of the
>  patch is not included below.
>  
>  Any comments? Is this worth doing for 8.5k, or should we just
>  ditch some more drivers from GENERIC?

Surely removing some KLD'able drivers would be simpler?

I submitted a patch (it was committed to -current, not sure about stable) which
allows you to load kld's off a floppy.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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