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

Thomas Mueller mueller6724 at bellsouth.net
Thu Aug 29 17:39:01 UTC 2013


> 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 hardware they are for is becoming so seriously outdated?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.
        
> -Kimmo

These looked useless to me on a desktop computer, but proved necessary to retain just to be able to compile NDIS support into the kernel.

This is for a USB wireless adapter by Hiro that uses Realtek RTL8191S chip.

Other responses on this topic reveal that these cardbus drivers are needed for many other drivers too.


Tom



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