Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:30:05 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *_ROOT removed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102081626260.4328-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200102080503.f1853J998701@harmony.village.org>
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200102080125.f181PRt70396@mobile.wemm.org> Peter Wemm writes: > : No, FFS_ROOT was unused. We have a generic mountroot mechanism, so we no > : longer needed to compile the "special" FFS-specific version of the code > : into autoconf.c. FFS is still optional. For i386 FFS_ROOT and CD9660_ROOT > : did nothing, and on alpha/ia64 it did something that was more likely to > : cause problems than help. > > Then why was FFS moved to opt_dontuse.h? Becuase that's the right place for it. It is kernel sources that don't (shouldn't) use it, not kernel configuration files. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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