From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 05:02:43 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 4004916A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:02:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hanoi.cronyx.ru (hanoi.cronyx.ru [144.206.181.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0205D43D41 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:02:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rik@cronyx.ru) Received: (from root@localhost) by hanoi.cronyx.ru id i3KBxS5m039759 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org.checked; (8.12.8/vak/2.1) Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:59:28 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from rik@cronyx.ru) Received: from cronyx.ru (hi.cronyx.ru [144.206.181.94]) by hanoi.cronyx.ru with ESMTP id i3KBukhf039593; (8.12.8/vak/2.1) Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:56:46 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from rik@cronyx.ru) Message-ID: <40851021.6090706@cronyx.ru> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:57:21 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <20040414155525.GD562@jenny.daemon.li> <20040419183108.L47248@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040419183108.L47248@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Josef El-Rayes 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 12:02:43 -0000 Doug White wrote: >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 > > Ok. If I don't have ISA at all, what is bad in idea to remove it from config file? You may argue that I can do the same if I have no PCI. Yes, you are right. But ISAless machine are more common nowadays, than PCIless (especially running current). rik >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. > > >