Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:16:11 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf DEFAULTS GENERIC Message-ID: <20051030171611.GW4115@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <4364D017.1050605@samsco.org> References: <200510271734.j9RHYZAk015054@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051030062148.GA76667@dragon.NUXI.org> <4364D017.1050605@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote this message on Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:52 -0700:
> > I'm also curious why we don't explicitly 'include'
> >DEFAULTS in GENERIC vs. the new automagic include feature.
>
> Because if it was specifically mentioned in the GENERIC config file then
> it would be deleted by people who don't understand what it does or why
> it's important, and it would be missed by people writing config files
> from scratch or migrating from previous versions of FreeBSD.
I'm sorry, I don't buy this... The reason:
device npx
If you don't get it, think about it.
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