From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 05:02:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2364F16A4A0 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:02:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (vc4-2-0-87.dsl.netrack.net [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDBEB43D46 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:02:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [IPv6:::1] (may be forged)) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5N4xlqB030918; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:59:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:59:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20060622.225947.635732173.imp@bsdimp.com> To: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <1150735321.47111.16.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <20060619024759.I13558@woozle.rinet.ru> <1150735321.47111.16.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org, marck@rinet.ru Subject: Re: puc and sio X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:02:24 -0000 In message: <1150735321.47111.16.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Gavin Atkinson writes: : On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 02:56 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: : > Dear colelagues, : > : > playing with puc compatible MOXA card I found that it's rather useless with : > contemporary DEFAULT kernel: : > : > - sio compiled in, puc as module - puc identified, but no sio ports detected, : > even when puc.ko is loaded by loader : > - sio and puc both loaded as modules - all sio ports detected, but comconsole : > cannot be activated : > - sio and puc compiled in kernel - all work flawlessly : > : > Maybe it's time to consider including puc in GENERIC? : : Yes - this has been brought up a few times before. Another alternative : is the patch in : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-December/058909.html - but there was at least one objection to it. I'm not convinced the current status quo is acceptable, though. This patch is bad and should not be committed. It makes puc a special case when it comes to attachments. The problem is somewhat more wide-ranging than just puc, and fixing it generally would massively bloatify static kernels. Warner