Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:42:29 -0600 From: juli mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 acpi.4 Message-ID: <20040218004229.GA69651@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4032B105.1040005@acm.org> References: <20040217203852.724BE16A567@hub.freebsd.org> <20040217125043.N30568@root.org> <20040217215309.GA31288@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040217143034.B31176@root.org> <20040217230348.GB31288@dragon.nuxi.com> <4032AB2D.60008@acm.org> <20040217160751.Q31680@root.org> <4032B105.1040005@acm.org>
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* Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> [ Date: 2004-02-17 ] [ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 acpi.4 ] > Nate Lawson wrote: > >On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > > >>Seems like it might be time to evaluate ways to separate > >>the "default hints" from the "custom hints". > >> /boot/defaults/device.hints, anyone? > > > >This is not helpful since my whole point was not to create more places > >where user overrides go. loader.conf is blank by default, therefore it's > >an easy place to put overrides for both hints and tunables. Going and > >creating two separate files that are blank by default only increases > >confusion. > > Okay, so what exactly is the difference between > /boot/defaults/loader.conf > and > /boot/device.hints > ? > > If device hints can go in loader.conf with impunity, > and we already have defaults/loader.conf (which people > know to leave alone) and the regular loader.conf > (for local customizations), then it's not clear > why device.hints exists at all. It's nice to have the hints tied to the kernel not the loader, for example, for compiling hints in statically. -- juli mallett. email: jmallett@freebsd.org; efnet: juli;
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