GENERIC and DEFAULTS

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:43:29PM -0800, Rob wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > You've clearly never spent much time on the FreeBSD
> > support forums, where every few days someone posts
> > for help
> > 
> > 1) with an error caused by removing one of those
> > "Do not remove this!" lines, and
> > 
> > 2) for help on getting X working when they forgot
> > to add /dev/io and /dev/mem to their kernel.
> 
> I believe *BSD can offer a better solution for such
> issues.
> 
> For example, when having firewall_enable="YES",
> then /etc/rc.d/ipfw does:
> 
>  if ! ${SYSCTL} net.inet.ip.fw.enable; then
>    if ! kldload ipfw; then
>      warn unable to load firewall module.
>      return 1
>    fi
>  fi
> 
> So if ipfw is not supported by the kernel, this
> script will automagically load the ipfw module,
> or issue a warning what is missing.
> 
> (Similarly, but not yet implemented, /etc/rc.d/sshd
> should automagically load the random module, if
> not in the kernel).
> 
> My point is then to follow this strategy also for X:
> instead of a DEFAULTS file, have a /etc/rc.d/xdm
> script, which starts X and loads the modules io/mem
> if needed.

You missed the part where I said that the error is commonly reported
by people who have chosen not to build modules.

Kris
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