Re: atapiacam(4) at KLD?

While humming that old rock song Yackety Yacc - Dont Awk Back 
freebsd-current-request_at_freebsd.org sang or SED something like this:

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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:45:25 +0200Westeurop?ische Normalzeit)
> From: Lukas Ertl <le_at_FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: atapicam(4) as KLD?
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> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> > Easy workaround: Put atapicam into GENERIC. I'm waiting for
> > that to happen ever since atapicam entered the tree.

> How hard would it be to offer multiple different GENERIC kernels
> at the install stage, and the user can decide which one to
> install? One with atapicam, one without... (this is not limited
> to atapicam, of course).

My own personal opinion is that would be very ugly.  It brings
back memories of the time I was doing beta testing on the Caldera
Linux single boot kernel. Prior to that time you figured out what
hardware you had, and then chose from a dozen or more kernel
choices.

I'd think that making comments on such things like this
in the RELEASE NOTES would be the appropriate place.  

Of course the problem is getting people to read RELEASE NOTES
just as it seems a bit hard for some to read UPDATING.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv _at_ wjv . com