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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 1997 01:02:51 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT 
Message-ID:  <8923.853405371@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:24:37 %2B1100." <199701160824.TAA28517@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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> >  Modified:    sys/i386/conf  LINT
> >  Log:
> >  Document INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE.
> 
> Does anyone really want it?   It isn't used in GENERIC or
> /usr/src/release.  One of the improvements in 2.0 vs 1.1.5 was that the
> config file went away :-).

I like this feature a lot!  It's saved quite a few people's bacon when
a source tree went away and took /sys/i386/conf with it, and we'd have
had freefall's kernel resurrected in no time if this had been compiled
in after our recent drive outtage which took freefall's own /usr/src
away.

					Jordan



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