Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 10/31/05

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    Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:28:08 -0500
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>

    On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:12:01AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:

    > i agree 100%, i hate wizardy/black-magic, and this 'fix' falls in that
    > class. Why was a 5ton hammer used to fix non existing problem?
    > a small comment like 'you better keep these lines to make X happy'
    > would have sufficed.

    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.

    Kris

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