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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:07:15 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC 
Message-ID:  <200101290707.f0T77F447019@mobile.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010129094952.G30652@wantadilla.lemis.com> 

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 January 2001 at 19:11:22 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <20010128095451.A17061@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
> >> On Saturday, 27 January 2001 at  0:18:36 -0800, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >>> phk         2001/01/27 00:18:36 PST
> >>>
> >>>   Modified files:
> >>>     sys/i386/conf        GENERIC
> >>>   Log:
> >>>   Turn DEVFS on by default.
> >>>
> >>>   You may need to turn this off if you you vinum.  Apart from that I know
     of
> >>>   no reason not to run with DEVFS.
> >>
> >> So why haven't you fixed Vinum?
> >
> > Lack of everything.
> 
> I thought we had a rule that you don't make anything a default if it
> breaks components of the system.  I certainly don't want you to back
> it out, but it's broken Vinum, so you should go and fix things.

It isn't on by default - it is only in GENERIC (and vinum isn't in
GENERIC).  'options DEVFS' is still an option.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
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