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# LINT -- config file for checking all the sources, tries to pull in
# as much of the source tree as it can.
#
-# $Id: LINT,v 1.375 1997/10/18 10:59:16 joerg Exp $
+# $Id: LINT,v 1.376 1997/10/26 04:36:09 nate Exp $
#
# NB: You probably don't want to try running a kernel built from this
# file. Instead, you should start from GENERIC, and add options from
@@ -578,18 +578,12 @@ options OD_AUTO_TURNOFF
#####################################################################
# MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS
-#
-# Of these, only the `log' device is truly mandatory. The `pty'
-# device usually turns out to be ``effectively mandatory'', as it is
-# required for `telnetd', `rlogind', `screen', `emacs', and `xterm',
-# among others.
-# If you wish to run certain
-# system utilities which are compressed by default (like /stand/sysinstall)
-# then `gzip' becomes mandatory too.
-#
+# The `pty' device usually turns out to be ``effectively mandatory'',
+# as it is required for `telnetd', `rlogind', `screen', `emacs', and
+# `xterm', among others.
+
pseudo-device pty 16 #Pseudo ttys - can go as high as 256
pseudo-device speaker #Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
-pseudo-device log #Kernel syslog interface (/dev/klog)
pseudo-device gzip #Exec gzipped a.out's
pseudo-device vn #Vnode driver (turns a file into a device)
pseudo-device snp 3 #Snoop device - to look at pty/vty/etc..
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