Re: Why are cardbus drivers cbb(4) and pccard(4) still included in GENERIC?

Boris Kochergin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hardware,gmane.os.freebsd.current,gmane.os.freebsd.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/29/13 11:52, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2013, at 3:15 AM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
>
>> In reference to this FreeBSD forums post:
>>
>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=231135&postcount=4
>>
>> Would it be a good time to remove those from GENERIC since the
>> hardware they are for is becoming so seriously outdated?
>>
>> There's always an option to load those drivers as modules if needed.
> No. It is not a good time to remove them. They aren't as out-dated as you might think, and there's literally dozens of other devices in GENERIC that have even less use today...
>
> Warner
>

Just thought I'd be a statistic and speak up to say that I am happily
using the PCMCIA drivers on multiple 9.x/i386 machines, and plan to
continue doing so through 10.x.

-Boris
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