Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:16:59 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing firewire support from GENERIC Message-ID: <50816EEB.8080207@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <86ehkufsj9.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <86ehkufsj9.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On 10/19/12 09:25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Firewire is > > - a significant security risk > - an obstacle to functining suspend / resume on many systems > - rapidly becoming obsolete > - available as a module > > The attached patch removes it from GENERIC across the board. Any > serious objections before I commit it to head? > > DES (e) is still quite useful and something I expect to have Just Work on any modern operating system The only reason I think this makes sense is because of the suspend/resume bugs. This is otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, a serious POLA violation. That said, I thought the same thing about removing sbp(4) from GENERIC and there is not too much point in having firewire without sbp. -Nathan
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