David Syphers wrote: > On Wednesday 21 April 2004 07:38 am, M. Warner Losh wrote: >>In message: <20040421143336.GA31427_at_daemon.li> >>: whats the sense of a removable option which will only result in a >>: broken kernel build, if it is removed? why not hide it or >>: make a note so no one tries to remove it? >> >> it is an option no one has tried to remove until recently, and the >> amount of code that unwisely depends on it was unknown until such >> efforts were undertaken. It could be made to work, just that nobody >> has climbed the hill to make it work. > > > I do think it'd be a good idea to add a note, though. I know I tried removing > it a while ago, since I know next to nothing about hardware and thought, > "hey, I don't have ISA." Something complained, so I put it back in and forgot > about it. A note would save people like me a little confusion. And I'm sure > there have been others like me for many years, not just "recently." I haven't > had ISA slots in a computer for at least 6 years. > > -David The note was added a week ago (revision 1.400): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-April/022284.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC JonReceived on Thu Apr 22 2004 - 05:15:40 UTC
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