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Date:      Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:28:11 +0200
From:      alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer)
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <20000709152811.E51755@cichlids.cichlids.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007080035190.22999-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:37:02AM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007081718290.21969-100000@besplex.bde.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007080035190.22999-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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Thus spake Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com):

> on two years of watching things here is that nobody looks in LINT (or NOTES)
> for device support. And FreeBSD loses a lot by not having this extra
> functionality visible.

A lot of drivers are only listed in NOTES and not in GENERIC, or am I
wrong?

However, if this is the case, imho the correct solution is:

* Add a BIG note to GENERIC, that explains, that example codes and
  supported devices are in NOTEs
* remove all uncommented stuff from GENERIC, NOTES it the correct file

This has the following advantage:
* Only maintain one file (NOTES) for changes/new stuff
* Make people look into NOTES (and probably see MUCH more stuff they
  might need, such as device-options).

Alex
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