Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 00:53:03 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINT settings Message-ID: <199504061453.AAA24079@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I think GENERIC should have all devices turned off by default and there >> should be a fancy config to turn them on. >It wouldn't be GENERIC then. It isn't generic now. All the special devices would have to be turned off for it to be generic. You would be left with isa0, fdc0, fd[0-1], wdc0, wd[0-1], npx0, sio[0-1] and lpt[0-3]. All other devices have nonstandard addresses so probing is dangerous. Unfortunately a generic machine can't be guaranteed to have a hard disk. wdc0 is safe to probe but there may be non-disk there. Bruce
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