Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 06:30:55AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > > Why? I consider this totaly useless bloat, what was wrong with the boot.cfg
> > > solution?
> >
> > policy:  no default modules in the installation unless licenses
> > issues force such, until module+kernel solution.
>
> OK, but this is gone awry. The boot.cfg solution is great if anoyne
> really needs this dmesg sugar, everyone else can go on using pcictl
> later instead.

If they need the sugar they can always edit their own /etc/boot.cfg
and/or drop to the boot loader and manually load the module.

> So now the (reasonable) policy forces a (relatively harmless, as easily
> overidable but still useless) change into bloat for everyone. Can we
> just revert to the state before the initial boot.cfg change instead?

Agreed.  No need to bloat for everyone, just bloat-on-demand (as
above, or build a local kernel with ``options PCIVERBOSE'' defined).


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