Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:50:44 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS Message-ID: <20051031085044.GA79715@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <E1EWVJN-000CHW-JS@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1EWVJN-000CHW-JS@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:46:37AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: >=20 > > You've clearly never spent much time on the FreeBSD support forums, > > where every few days someone posts for help > >=20 > > 1) with an error caused by removing one of those "Do not remove this!" > > lines, and > >=20 > > 2) for help on getting X working when they forgot to add /dev/io and > > /dev/mem to their kernel. > >=20 > > Those of us who spend a lot of time answering such questions will > > surely welcome the change, since it will hopefully reduce our > > workload. > >=20 > 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 t= he > MYKERNCONF is still protected? Many users who build custom kernels do not build modules, since they want to compile everything they (think they) need into the kernel statically. Kris --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDZdrjWry0BWjoQKURAjfvAKCOLDlNpvuz5CnDucLOyrmVw5GkPQCgjEJW KqsEbM4Xf8XE+Ip5Am3NHLY= =qoDc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--
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