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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:29:00 -0500
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf NOTES 
Message-ID:  <200101151429.f0FET0x54734@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:34:45 %2B1100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101152130160.16568-100000@besplex.bde.org> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101152130160.16568-100000@besplex.bde.org> 

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> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
> > dillon      2001/01/14 22:45:03 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/i386/conf        NOTES 
> >   Log:
> >   Make NSWAPDEV reasonable so people do not mistakenly use unreasonable
> >   values when creating custom kernels from LINT.
> 
> LINT is not supposed to have reasonable values.  It is supposed to have
> values different from the defaults so that unusual values get tested.
> I normally use the default + 1 if that can work.

If there was an obvious source for all the default values, and for
all of the available configuration options, I'd certainly use it instead
of trolling through LINT/NOTES.  When bulding a configuration from
scratch, you can't start with GENERIC as an example because it omits
a bunch stuff (like sound, IPFILTER, etc.)

louie



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