Fix make release for 4-STABLE

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 19 01:28:00 PST 2004


On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:51:48PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> 
> will> This patch removes the parallel port support and USB mouse and
> will> firewire ethernet.
> 
> My three comments about this:
> 
> 1) It's hard to decide that we can say goodbye to plip (plip is not
>    provided as a kernel module), since it is supported on 4.x-RELEASE
>    fora long time.
> 
> 2) Removing 'fwe' shouldn't work here; it is already removed from the
>    boot kernel :-)  See src/release/i386/drivers.conf.
> 
> 3) USB mouse driver can be moved to mfsroot.flp as a kernel module.
>    drivers.conf and associated tools will do that.  It seems that
>    there's enough space to put another modules on mfsroot.flp, so move
>    it to there makes no functional changes.
> 
> Anyway, thank you for trying to fix this issue.
> 
Maybe it's time for drivers.flp to appear on RELENG_4?  If someone
could MFC the support to sysinstall, I could help with release/
bits.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru at FreeBSD.org
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