GENERIC and DEFAULTS

[Rob]

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.
> 
> 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 assume:
if a 'novice' innocently removes the io/mem
devices, he/she as well will happily add a
'nodevice io' and 'nodevice mem' in their new
kernel config....and again scream HELP to the
mailinglist when X does not start!

Rob.



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