From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 15:03:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A9816A4CE; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:03:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD20043D2D; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:03:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1HN3nOJ035724; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1HN3niG035723; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:03:48 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Nate Lawson Message-ID: <20040217230348.GB31288@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040217203852.724BE16A567@hub.freebsd.org> <20040217125043.N30568@root.org> <20040217215309.GA31288@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040217143034.B31176@root.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040217143034.B31176@root.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: Wes Peters cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 acpi.4 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:03:51 -0000 On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:32:26PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:52:24PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > Please don't recommend they put the hint in device.hints. That file is > > > regenerated as part of the upgrade process. It should go in > > > /boot/loader.conf, which is already cross-referenced by the manpage. > > > > I don't follow -- /boot/device.hints isn't regenerated. One must have > > one, and upgrading from an older FreeBSD version to 5.x requires you to > > create one. > > I meant the step in UPGRADING that says "cp GENERIC.hints > /boot/device.hints". If people follow that, you lose local changes to > hints. s/UPGRADING/UPDATING/ I think it is clear that one only does the 'cp' if they are upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. I'm not arguing that the knob isn't better living in loader.conf -- just that /boot/devince.hints isn't a [auto]generated file[*] and we can assume it is as "stable" as one's passwd file. -- David [*] I can't even boot w/o my custom device.hints due to the hardwiring I do for SCSI devices. This file cannot become volatile.