Subject: Re: no dev at attachment [was: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/config]
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/25/2005 21:40:21
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> We can rewrite them, yes.
>
> I did it for my laptop's kernel and it's tedious without any tools to
> help with the task. We would still have to provide a lot of kernels
> with all the disabled devices (and maintain them), but I guess that
> might be easier to script that part now. We'll see.
I guess pkgsrc/sysutils/adjustkernel can be changed to not print lines
already there, but just add an .include statement and the appropriate "no
..." statements.
We may need to introduce a new kernel config that really has everything in
then - ISTR some GENERIC configs are downdized towards being usable/able
to fit into memory on some systems, and thus don't include everything.
- Hubert