Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:56:33 -0500 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel configurator Message-ID: <19990105125633.A15584@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990104175352.22071A-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>; from Kenneth Wayne Culver on Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:56:48PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041444120.317-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990104175352.22071A-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>
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On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:56:48PM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > That's what I thought, I just wasn't sure. It was my impression however > that UNIX wasn't supposed to be that simple. It was supposed to be more > stable. besides, unless the people know what they are doing when they look > at the configurator program (similar to some Linux dists) they may be even > more confused, and it's not that hard to make a custom kernel in the first > place. I personally don't think we need a kernel configurator. Well, we could try to think about what could be improved on the current scheme. It can be a bit tricky to deal with changes such as new devices, new names for old devices, the xxintr stuff going away, etc. I don't really have an answer, except that I think it might involve dropping the idea of "copy GENERIC, then edit" and changing to more of a split system such as rc.conf/rc.local is now. I think that once it's sufficiently improved for the "edit a file by hand" case, it will be easier to make an optional fancy front-end. -- Christopher Masto Director of Operations NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net "Good tools allow users to do stupid things." -- Clay Shirky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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