From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Sep 4 10: 7:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D5D37B406 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02820; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:07:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08903; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:07:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15253.2629.729785.251957@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:07:17 -0600 To: Warner Losh Cc: "Kevin Oberman" , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default setting of pcardd_flags In-Reply-To: <200108311550.f7VFoUh04949@harmony.village.org> References: <200108301752.f7UHqdR27370@ptavv.es.net> <200108311550.f7VFoUh04949@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > : I realize the pccardd as we know it will hopefully fade away before > : too long, but in the mean time, would it be reasonable to either make > : '-z' default with an option to turn it off or to put > : 'pccardd_flags="-z"' into /etc/defaults/rc.conf? > > Well, it is going to have at least an 18 month time horizon. Wasn't -z the default in 3.x? At least, I remember it being the default at some point, and I've made it the default on all my laptops. (I even backported the changes locally to my really old 2.X boxes). > : I have never found any problem with the use of this option other than > : a delay in the boot while the card in fully instantiated into the > : system. Am I missing something? > > -z move the fork from before it reads the cards to after. I don't > know if it is a good idea, since it takes so long to bring up a pccard > :-( It's a good idea (IMO), since it allows the network to come up before all the daemons that need it (sendmail in particular). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message