From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 11 21:05:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA26806 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp20.portal.net.au [202.12.71.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA26750 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00975; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:30:59 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710120400.NAA00975@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Oct 1997 20:32:02 MST." <12637.876627122@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:30:54 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The only conceivable counter-argument I can see concerns the psm0 > entry which is disabled by default in the distributed GENERIC, it > being a plausible argument that the "psm0: disabled, not probed." > message at boot-time served as a much needed indicator of its disabled > state should the user actually want to have it enabled. On the other > hand, I seem to recall some folks also talking about the ps/2 mouse > driver finally reaching a level of maturity where it could just be > enabled by default, and I'd rather have that happen in any case if > it's possible. Nate did this at least in -current a few days back. I've never had any grief with the new split-architecture keyboard driver, so I'd be happy to see this in 2.2.x as well. > So what do folks think, can I kill it? I'd say "yes". mike