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Re: GNU Mach: enabling all (working) device drivers by default?


From: Thomas Schwinge
Subject: Re: GNU Mach: enabling all (working) device drivers by default?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:14:05 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:53:58PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    >    > and b) should now re-visit the file [GNU
>    >    > Mach]/i386/README-Drivers and the output of `[GNU
>    >    > Mach]/configure --help=recursive'.
>    > 
>    >    And here I should add that you will notice that I also removed
>    >    all the aliases for the device drivers but in turn improved
>    >    the output of configure's help screens.
>    > 
>    > Please revert this, it makes it hard to do `./configure
>    > --help|grep alias'.

Did you actually have a look at configure's `--help' output?


>    I do not see how having these aliases as configuration options are
>    useful, why do you need them?
> 
> A user who has a aha2825 card will grep for aha2825 and not for
> aha152x, if the aha2825 alias is removed, said user will have trouble
> finding the switch for his card.

#v+
$ ./configure --help=recursive | grep -C 1 aha2825
  --disable-aha152x       disable driver SCSI controller Adaptec AHA-152x/2825
                          (aha152x, aha2825)
  --disable-aha1542       disable driver SCSI controller Adaptec AHA-1542
#v-

> Some of the option names might even be outright misleading,
> --enable-3c59x vs --enable-3c90x, two completely sets of cards, same
> driver.

#v+
$ ./configure --help=recursive | grep -C 1 3c59x
                          and other 27xxx series)
  --disable-3c59x         disable driver Ethernet controller 3Com 59x/90x
                          (3c59x, 3c590, 3c592, 3c595, 3c597, 3c90x, 3c900,
                          3c905) "Vortex/Boomerang"
$ ./configure --help=recursive | grep -C 1 3c90x
  --disable-3c59x         disable driver Ethernet controller 3Com 59x/90x
                          (3c59x, 3c590, 3c592, 3c595, 3c597, 3c90x, 3c900,
                          3c905) "Vortex/Boomerang"
#v-


And there is documentation to be read in [GNU Mach]/i386/README-Drivers.


 Thomas

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