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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:07:01 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r222980 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf
Message-ID:  <20110611140701.GA98162@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110611134515.GA65992@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <201106110908.p5B98kkE066709@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106111403060.44950@fledge.watson.org> <20110611134515.GA65992@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 03:45:15PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> In my experience, whenever i buy new motherboards it is often the
> case that network cards, audio cards and several usb things
> are not recognised just because a change in the device id.
> Having the driver embedded in the kernel is very annoying in these cases.

Not to mention that it's sometimes required to unload/reload some module so
it can reinitialize its hardware when something breaks.

I've always been recompiling minimal kernel with everything possible (down
to io and mem devices) factored out into modules.  Works perfectly.

./danfe



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