Re: atapicam(4) as KLD?

El Viernes, 15 de Octubre de 2004 16:36, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko 
escribió:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 15:57, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> > Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > > Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 14 October 2004 12:59, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:51:41PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein
> > >>> wrote: [ ...well made userland point snipped... ]
> > >>> Unfortunately, due to the way ata and atapicam are implemented
> > >>> right now,
> > >>> this is unlikely to happen soon.
> > >>  ...
>
> Since I was one of the people responsible for using up space in
> Søren's mailbox in the past, I felt obliged to chime in -- my laptop
> (AVERATEC 3150H) was complaining about ad0 and would eventually hang
> if it had 'device atapicam'. I have disabled it and lived happily
> thereafter. To be fair, I do not know if it still is the case. If
> there is enough interest out there, I can plug it back in.
>
> However, I think this would be something to consider before making it
> part of GENERIC kernel.
>
> FWIW.
> ---
> Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko.
>

Well, and something between?

With module support going better and better, we'll try to distribute 
some other kernel appart of GENERIC.

This is now done by NetBSD and think that re makefiles support more than 
GENERIC and install kernels.

Have also a PC or a MOBILE kernel may be of interest.

--
  josemi