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Date:      Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:47:23 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC.hints
Message-ID:  <20010715184723.E73003@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010716010714.18162380B@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:07:14PM -0700
References:  <200107151756.f6FHurA98343@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010716010714.18162380B@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:07:14PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> "David E. O'Brien" wrote:
> > obrien      2001/07/15 10:56:53 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/alpha/conf       GENERIC.hints 
> >   Log:
> >   Now that config(8) has stopped breaking POLA (mkmakefile.c rev 1.69) by
> >   always including <KERNEL>.hints if its exist reguardless of the lack of a
> >   "hints" directive in the <KERNEL> file; we can have a real hints file again
> 
> Actually no, the real fix was subr_bus.c:1.90 / subr_hints.c:1.2 - the 
> config change was disabling a feature, not a fix for the alpha.

Well... both. :-)
It was because of the POLA "feature" I had to comment out the GENERIC hints.
It was because of my explicit "hints" directive in my custom kernel that
sub_bus/sub_hints broke/fixed.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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