From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 8 03:17:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA01005 for current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:17:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00930 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:17:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA23069 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:21:27 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA04325 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:20:40 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA11976 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:20:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA21005 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:15:12 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603080815.JAA21005@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: New kernel option proposed.. To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:15:12 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <15638.826244887@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 7, 96 04:28:07 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)