Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:53:20AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > | This is a more general thing actually, the list of USB drivers is rather > | haphazard at the moment. List below (to fit <80 cols I've snipped i386 > | which has all drivers present in any other GENERIC config, amd64 which > | is only missing umbg, and sgi with all its various different configs). > | > | Would it make sense to try unifying these for all/some arches? are > | there particular space constraints for some (IIRC maybe the case on sgi, > | not sure about others) or other reasons to restrict them? > > One thing that could be considered is putting all USB devices into a > separate file that gets included from the various arch-specific > GENERIC config files. That would look a bit like the below for amd64 > (although the 'USB' file would then probably move to sys/conf/). > > This has some obvious downsides, so this is probably not such a hot > idea. There's some upsides too, though. Obviously, this is above my > pay-grade - I cannot oversee the full implications.
This has been looked at before, and we decided against it.
