GENERIC and DEFAULTS

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:46:37AM +0200, Danny Braniss 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.
> > 
> > Those of us who spend a lot of time answering such questions will
> > surely welcome the change, since it will hopefully reduce our
> > workload.
> > 
> I understand - and appreciate, your problem. I still think that
> the solution is wrong. I'm now checking, since it seems that io and
> mem are loadable modules, that maybe the X start, or rc.d will make sure
> that these modules are loaded? So that if someone who removes them from the
> MYKERNCONF is still protected?

Many users who build custom kernels do not build modules, since they
want to compile everything they (think they) need into the kernel
statically.

Kris
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