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Date:      Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:01:50 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        nikolas.britton@gmail.com
Cc:        des@des.no, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Do we need this junk?
Message-ID:  <20070405.140150.59738522.imp@bsdimp.com>
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> So I come back to the question of why we have external devices from
> 1987 still floating around in the kernel and more importantly why
> these devices are enabled by default in the GENERIC kern conf?

Because they work and are necessary.  If you don't know that, I'll
echo Kris' "Thank you for the input" and be done with it.

Warner



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