Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:50:23 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Chuck Burns <chuck@thesouthernlibertarian.com>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS Message-ID: <4EB987FF.1040008@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <00E1440E-FFEB-4701-849F-86BBDEEABD31@samsco.org> References: <4EB9142D.3090705@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4EB92ADA.6080309@daemonic.se> <30719078.XD2KNDdpQA@funbeast> <4EB9422B.1080909@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <00E1440E-FFEB-4701-849F-86BBDEEABD31@samsco.org>
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On 11/08/2011 09:33, Scott Long wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2011, at 7:52 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Am 11/08/11 14:31, schrieb Chuck Burns: >>> On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 02:12:58 PM Niclas Zeising wrote: >>>> From my understanding of things, the DEFAULTS kernel configuration file >>>> is automatically included into the build by config(8). There is no need >>>> to include it into the generic using the "include" statement. It was >>>> first added 6 years ago, on October 27 2005. >>>> Regards! >>> >>> Not sure if you already know this, or not but another thing to keep in mind, >>> if a module is not mentioned, or is commented out, then it will still be >>> built, just not included into the monolithic kernel. >>> >>> If you were already aware of this, then my apologies. >>> >>> Chuck >> >> >> Hello. >> >> well, I'm aware of that, but it doesn't matter. As long as I do not use >> a broken or commented out module, it is all right. >> >> I was a little bit surprised having options already set I never set in >> the usual config file named after the host's name or GENERIC. >> >> And for FBSD 10.0/amd64, it has been started to use a VFS-option for >> loading thread safe filesystems. >> > > I've never liked that DEFAULTS is magically invisible. I know that the intention was to keep users from shooting their feet off by accidentally excluding it from their configs, but I think it creates more confusion that it solves. +1 on both counts -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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