Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:27:48 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@yes.no, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! [was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c] Message-ID: <199810051327.XAA21113@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Modified files: >> sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c >> Log: >> Now require *FS_ROOT to enable the ability to mount a *FS /. >> Previously one could config(8) a kernel that would not link. >> >> Revision Changes Path >> 1.107 +16 -6 src/sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c > >WARNING! WARNING! > >If your kernel config file is from before February 1998, you must add >in the appropriate 'options xFS_ROOT' to be able to mount your root. >Ie, if you don't have 'options FFS_ROOT' in your kernel config, you >most likely want to add it. You've been covered by compatibility code >up to now; that code is now gone. This change should be backed out. It defeats the point of the xFS_ROOT options, which is to smooth the move of the xFS options to opt_dontuse.h - a development operation which should be transparent to users, if not developers. For full transparency, the addition of the xFS_ROOT options should have been backed out, since these options will go away when vfs's export their root-mounting capabilities properly. Now we are even further from moving the xFS options - +16 -6 is for even more, even uglier, ifdefs of them. Bruce
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