From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 16:13:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mass.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5714A37B446 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00663; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200008232326.QAA00663@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Archie Cobbs Cc: Warner Losh , Daryl Chance , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:05 PDT." <200008232109.OAA86366@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:26:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Would you ever want "miibus" even if you're NOT using any of > the cards that require it? > > I guess you might need it to be able to KLD load one of those > drivers.. ? But that's no argument becuse you could just have > a miibus.ko that was a dependency of those drivers. > > So why is it a separate option? For the same reason that eg. 'pci' is still a separate option. Config isn't smart enough to handle these dependancies. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message