From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 22 13:42:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF20437B6A0 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:42:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23917 invoked by uid 100); 22 Jan 2001 21:42:31 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14956.43335.171799.155466@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:42:31 -0600 (CST) To: John Baldwin Cc: Warner Losh , Peter Wemm , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Donald J . Maddox" Kris Kennaway , Subject: Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 ) In-Reply-To: References: <200101222049.f0MKnv912117@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin types: > > On 22-Jan-01 Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <14956.39955.318792.388889@guru.mired.org> Mike Meyer writes: > >: Warner Losh types: > >: > It is in the handbook, and has been for some time. I'm reviewing the > >: > recent KERNEL -> KERNCONF changes to make sure that they make it into > >: > the handbook properly (I assume there will be a MFC in a few days, > >: > since putting KERNEL in /etc/make.conf is a setup for disaster right > >: > now). > >: > >: Could you also make sure it makes it into /etc/defaults/make.conf > >: (KERNEL isn't mentioned there at all) and make.conf(5)? > > > > That's really Peter's job since he made the change without any lead > > time at all to resolve issues like this. I'll see what I can do to > > backstop things, but it really isn't my baby. When people change > > things that have impact in different parts of the whole tree, they > > should be the ones to make the changes to those different parts of the > > tree, or at least submit patches to the maintainers of those parts of > > the tree. > Erm, if it wasn't documented in the first place, making a change doesn't > put the burden of documenting the old behavior on the person making the change. > Are there any kernel manpages for all of the oldcard and newcard API's floating > around btw? (As an example.) I agree it should be documented, but just > because Peter made the change doesn't mean that the onus that the people who > originally did buildkernel didn't bother to document it in places like > make.conf(5) should fall on Peter. KERNEL is documented in make.conf(5), but not in /etc/defaults/make.conf. Since the only thing in the latter that's anything other than a comment is BDECFLAGS, I suggested nuking most of /etc/defaults/make.conf and putting in a pointer to make.conf(5). That way, this stuff only needs to be documented in one place. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message