Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:47:59 -0300 (BRT) From: "Mario Lobo" <mlobo@digiart.art.br> To: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Henri Hennebert <hlh@restart.be>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Mario Lobo <mlobo@digiart.art.br> Subject: Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL (recap) Message-ID: <24636.189.23.180.20.1254149279.squirrel@squirrel.sv4.hmnoc.net> In-Reply-To: <19136.43017.530028.824860@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <200909271301.53931.mlobo@digiart.art.br> <19136.43017.530028.824860@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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> > Mario Lobo writes: > >> > Maybe it is due to /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS >> > >> > which contains: >> > >> > options GEOM_PART_BSD >> > options GEOM_PART_EBR >> > options GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT >> > options GEOM_PART_MBR >> > >> > Henri >> >> Not the case. I saw those and commented them out. > > It is my understanding that if a "defaults" file exists for any > task, it is A Very Bad Idea(tm) to change it. There should be a > file which contains over-ride settings; change things there instead. > In the case of kernel configuration, everything can be configured > from /sys/<arch>/conf/<KERNELNAME>. > > > Robert Huff > In my case, even if i took those out of /sys/amd64/conf/MYKERNEL, they would still be compiled in because of the DEFAULTS file, so I had no option (that I know of) left but to comment them out IN the DEFAULTS file itself. Mario Lobo
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