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Date:      Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:03:58 -0800
From:      "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>
To:        <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES
Message-ID:  <1b6c01c2dba0$ad01c5a0$52557f42@errno.com>
References:  <20030224001644.GA67255@dragon.nuxi.com>

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> [Please don't CC me on your public replies -- I don't want every message
> in this thread to end up in my personal mailbox.  I'll read them in the
> list, thank you very much.]
>
> I can now create a sparc64 LINT kernel with the patches at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~obrien/sp64notes.diff.  The essence of this
> patch is to split sys/conf/NOTES into NOTES, NOTES.bt, NOTES.ext2fs,
> NOTES.ps2, NOTES.raid, and NOTES.syscons.  Each /sys/<arch>/conf/Makefile
> now looks like:
>
>     NOTES= ../../conf/NOTES \
>             ../../conf/NOTES.bt \
>             ../../conf/NOTES.ext2fs \
>             ../../conf/NOTES.ps2 \
>             ../../conf/NOTES.raid \
>             ../../conf/NOTES.syscons \
>             NOTES
>
>     LINT: ${NOTES} ../../conf/makeLINT.sed
>             cat ${NOTES} | sed -E -n -f ../../conf/makeLINT.sed > LINT
>
>
> Any comments before I commit this?

If this is taking us down the path of breaking things into module-specific
configuration information then perhaps that information belongs in the
directory where the code is.  I believe there is precedence for this in
other BSD systems.

    Sam


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