Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:46:37 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS Message-ID: <E1EWVJN-000CHW-JS@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:28:08 -0500 .
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> 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. > I understand - and appreciate, your problem. I still think that the solution is wrong. I'm now checking, since it seems that io and mem are loadable modules, that maybe the X start, or rc.d will make sure that these modules are loaded? So that if someone who removes them from the MYKERNCONF is still protected? dannyhome | help
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