Why are cardbus drivers cbb(4) and pccard(4) still included in GENERIC?

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Aug 29 15:53:05 UTC 2013


On Aug 29, 2013, at 3:15 AM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:

> In reference to this FreeBSD forums post:
> 
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=231135&postcount=4
> 
> Would it be a good time to remove those from GENERIC since the
> hardware they are for is becoming so seriously outdated?
> 
> There's always an option to load those drivers as modules if needed.

No. It is not a good time to remove them. They aren't as out-dated as you might think, and there's literally dozens of other devices in GENERIC that have even less use today...

Warner



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