From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 6 10:24:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA06186 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:24:38 -0800 Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA06178 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:24:31 -0800 Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Mon, 6 Nov 95 19:24 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA14877; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 19:08:25 +0100 Message-Id: <199511061808.TAA14877@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 19:08:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199511051705.SAA00337@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 5, 95 06:05:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 860 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > > As Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > Sure, but how? If I remove CD-ROM support for my dickless > > workstations, I get unresolved references from other modules which do > > need to stay. Sure, I could go in and throw in some #ifdefs--maybe. > > But that's going beyond a simple kernel rebuild. > > I don't understand which unresolved references you're getting. Well, that made me go and repeat the whole thing, and this time it worked. I obviously did something wrong last time round, but I can't remember what. > Perhaps you've by accident removed scsi adapter support, but tried to > keep some higher-level scsi device in? No, it wasn't that simple. It was a reference from deep in the kernel to a name with "cdrom" in it. I had removed all SCSI and CD-ROM stuff, but then, that's what I did today as well. Let's bury this one Greg