From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 17 17: 7: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A884837B41A for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:06:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBI15cZ96307; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:35:42 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200112172205.aa56337@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:35:37 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Ian Dowse Subject: Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message