From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 22 01:58:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC708CE for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:58:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325608FC13 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id s9so6028949iec.13 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:58:37 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer :x-gm-message-state; bh=PkFbGWWcR6xpSUv/bhb/aI96YFLfJQPk0u0tt/CSG6k=; b=gZX1p4gGs74lWWOpE8DIpibiEiZvSqGg7clgrnYscleiAIb+FVE2PG7qewuX8khBhJ Qrm5A49cy43cIPWevwditVBwn/oR9XnHqjcVoN5aiEZiXVl2DbezIxrWBvHuMZJHt1Zk KwpdpUaXY2+AWD4YMF/GtI4cEKPwaej4kxdleQ6Iy1R4xHeQsKwpinf++7slvuKxugqX xeSte0fls37pIOsvR4NJSSXke4Lwvs/H5S1/P1FFDjB6DqYd4G6enHo3jd5gHDHT/7Uq ifWSn6M8Zt6a89O9DEHMQnxBskKup6yk9StwlbDYC5YyGTngU/E/XKB7TcIiemTHQD+P ymQQ== Received: by 10.50.5.177 with SMTP id t17mr1501990igt.48.1353549517445; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:58:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from 53.imp.bsdimp.com (50-78-194-198-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [50.78.194.198]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bh3sm1121100igc.0.2012.11.21.17.58.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:58:36 -0800 (PST) Sender: Warner Losh Subject: Re: svn commit: r40117 - in head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook: kernelbuild policies tools Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:58:31 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <201211211357.qALDvDsP064264@svn.freebsd.org> To: Eitan Adler X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQksgd5G0ezVwxmsz5UcpY9Cs8vwa23NJzd8xVsYcOurHd/iDFajVM/J59YRZby1uUbLxpo0 Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:58:38 -0000 On Nov 21, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 21 November 2012 13:14, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> This seems to remove the last documentation of manually invoking = config(8) >> to build a kernel, which seems worthy of explicit mention, and = perhaps >> broader discussion. >=20 > This should probably be documented in config(1) or some other "how the > build process works" document. So far as I could tell, the old method > should be considered an implementation detail, not an alternative. > That said I agree this probably deserves some broader consideration, > so perhaps doc@ is the best place to discuss? Or would a developer > focussed ML like hackers@ be better? I don't see why it can't just stay in the handbook... It is widely = used, and often developers use it quite heavily. It is more than just = an implementation "detail", since it would be extremely hard to swap = anything else in right now. Warner