Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:28:08 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS Message-ID: <20051031082807.GA68204@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <E1EWUlt-000B8i-Fm@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1EWUlt-000B8i-Fm@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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--mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:12:01AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: > i agree 100%, i hate wizardy/black-magic, and this 'fix' falls in that > class. Why was a 5ton hammer used to fix non existing problem? > a small comment like 'you better keep these lines to make X happy' > would have sufficed. You've clearly never spent much time on the FreeBSD support forums, where every few days someone posts for help 1) with an error caused by removing one of those "Do not remove this!" lines, and 2) for help on getting X working when they forgot to add /dev/io and /dev/mem to their kernel. Those of us who spend a lot of time answering such questions will surely welcome the change, since it will hopefully reduce our workload. Kris --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDZdWWWry0BWjoQKURApLcAKDRqElRJUIw6HJy1JzSgtx2Tcq0gQCcD8Ea UF3bYHG6Iyhx3Y9OHpwYzSA= =RrTJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+--
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