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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