Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:56:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: bms@FreeBSD.org Cc: marcel@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, xcllnt@mac.com, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r184194 - in head/sys: conf mips/conf Message-ID: <20081024.165655.104036719.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <490227A9.2090007@FreeBSD.org> References: <490222B1.8070205@FreeBSD.org> <561E3029-B6E1-4447-8439-D61ECD2BED4B@mac.com> <490227A9.2090007@FreeBSD.org>
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From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r184194 - in head/sys: conf mips/conf Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:53:13 +0100 > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > ... > > They were enabled by default and they were non-optional by > > virtue of being standard. My change *only* made them > > optional so that people can opt-out (by using nooption, > > rather than editing sys/conf/files.mips). I didn't change > > the status-quo WRT having them compiled-in by default, and > > to achieve that, I added them to DEFAULTS. > > Thanks for the explanation, I clearly misunderstood what was going on. My conern was that this was the wrong mechanism, it wasn't discssed and lots of folks dislike it. Warner
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