8.x grudges

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:36:17 -0400
> From: Lucas Holt <luke at foolishgames.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> On 07/08/10 17:06, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > On 2010-Jul-07 14:22:22 -0400, "Mikhail T."<mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com>  wrote:
> >    
> >> In no particular order:
> >>
> >>    1.
> >>       A picture, that one of the systems was displaying at boot (and
> >>       then used as a screen-saver),  stopped showing properly. The
> >>       colors are right, but the picture is distorted beyond recognition.
> >>       The relevant part of loader.conf is:
> >>
> >>           splash_pcx_load="YES"
> >>           vesa_load="YES"
> >>           bitmap_load="YES"
> >>           bitmap_name="/boot/187426-9-quokka-dreaming.pcx"
> >>      
> > It's a bit difficult to provide any useful input without some idea
> > of what the picture should and does look like.  Can you please post
> > the actual bitmap as well as a picture of your screen showing the
> > problem.
> >
> >    
> >>    3.
> >>       Likewise, having "device ugen" breaks config(8) -- another
> >>       undocumented incompatibility.
> >>      
> > Can you please advise where it is documented that "device ugen"
> > is valid in a FreeBSD-8 config file?
> >
> NAME
>       ugen -- USB generic device support
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>       To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line 
> in your
>       kernel configuration file:
> 
>             device ugen
> 
>       Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
>       following line in loader.conf(5):
> 
>             ugen_load="YES"
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>       The ugen driver provides support for all USB devices that do not 
> have a
>       special driver.  It supports access to all parts of the device, 
> but not
>       in a way that is as convenient as a special purpose driver.
> 
>       There can be up to 127 USB devices connected to a USB bus.  Each USB
>       device can have up to 16 endpoints.  Each of these endpoints will 
> commu-
> <snip>
> 
> uname -a
> FreeBSD lholt-desktop.primemediaanalysis.com 8.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 
> 8.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue May 25 20:54:11 UTC 2010     
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> I'm not going to argue in favor of any points in this rant, but it is in 
> the man page.  As someone who's done some release engineering and worked 
> with sysinstall on my own project, I can tell you it's a real pain and 
> developers in the FreeBSD community deserve courtesy.  Most of us work 
> on open source for free in our own time, and it's impossible to test 
> every possible configuration before a release.

Oops! This one seems to have been left in the V8 sources, but there is
no ugen device in version 8. ugen still sort of exists, but it is part
of the base USB driver and not a separate device any longer.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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