From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 11 14:07:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 993D81065673; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:07:01 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Luigi Rizzo Message-ID: <20110611140701.GA98162@FreeBSD.org> References: <201106110908.p5B98kkE066709@svn.freebsd.org> <20110611134515.GA65992@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110611134515.GA65992@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson , Joel Dahl Subject: Re: svn commit: r222980 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:07:01 -0000 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