Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

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

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    Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:50:44 -0500
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>

    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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