usb modems and com devices into GENERIC

Rink Springer rink at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 1 11:13:01 PST 2007


Hi Warner,

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:38:01AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> I'd like to place the following in GENERIC.  We're getting more and
> more questions about these devices that we wouldn't be getting if we
> had them compiled in by default.  The really imporant ones are marked
> with a '*' below
> 
> device		ucom		# *
> device		umodem		# *
> device		umct
> device		uark
> device		ubsa
> device		ubser
> device		uftdi		# *
> device		uplcom		# *
> device		uvisor
> device		uvscom
> 
> the cost isn's so much, and we can filter them out from the
> installation kernel if size is an issue.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Warner

Sounds good to me. I usually kldload(8) some of this for my uplcom(4),
but it would not hurt having this in GENERIC.

I'm all in favor.

-- 
Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
"It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But yet a far more terrible thing,
 to admit it."                                    - Darth Traya
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