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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:15:12 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: New kernel option proposed..
Message-ID:  <199603080815.JAA21005@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <15638.826244887@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 7, 96 04:28:07 pm

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> Stefan Esser would like an option which he can use to conditionalize
> code to be "conservative" in the case where you're first installing.

Too many people run the GENERIC kernel as their normal one.  I don't
have an idea which amount of code will be affected, but i'd rather
vote for a sysctl variable (perhaps defaulting to ``conservative'' in
the GENERIC kernel, and being turned off in /etc/rc later).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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