From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 18:34:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D64716A4CE; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F163F43D41; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:34:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E19CB72DF1; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF45D72DF0; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:34:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Josef El-Rayes In-Reply-To: <20040414155525.GD562@jenny.daemon.li> Message-ID: <20040419183108.L47248@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040414155525.GD562@jenny.daemon.li> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small note to GENERIC for isa dependency X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:34:07 -0000 On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > hi! > > i just noticed that removing 'device isa' with 'device npx' still enabled > results in a break of the kernel build. > > as i did not find any hint in GENERIC or NOTES i was wondering whether i should > wrtie a short hint and if so, how it should look like. You want to do the same thing for pci? There's a LOT of stuff that depends on that! :) I don't think that trying to add comments to keep people from doing really dumb thing with config files is doing to fix the problem. Theres a reason we have a whole section in the Handbook on kernel configuration, and we still have people doing dumb things :) Also note there is a "don't remove this" comment on npx, which you would think keep people from screwing around with it to much. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org