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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Message-Id: <199501102205.JAA25778@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
To: dufault@hda.com, rkw@dataplex.net
Subject: Re: Where is THIS file?
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org
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>Do new ISA devices get handled without doing a config, while new general
>devices don't?

No, conf.c has to know about everything, and the only way that it can
know if a new device foo is configured is to include foo.h.

>For now you can just create one in your /sys/compile/MYNAME
>directory with this in it:

>> #define NSSC 0

>and it will get recreated when you config.

>Someone can tell me if I did something wrong.

You didn't complain enough about the bugs in config that cause it to do
more than this :-).

Bruce