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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:25:18 +0400
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files
Message-ID:  <20061018192518.GA40159@rambler-co.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20061018.085642.652860238.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <200610171808.k9HI84bw054602@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061018100033.pz0u24u2gw8owc8s@webmail.leidinger.net> <20061018.085642.652860238.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:56:42AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20061018100033.pz0u24u2gw8owc8s@webmail.leidinger.net>
>             Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> writes:
> : Quoting Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> (from Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:08:04 =
=20
> : +0000 (UTC)):
> :=20
> : > imp         2006-10-17 18:08:04 UTC
> : >
> : >   FreeBSD src repository
> : >
> : >   Modified files:
> : >     sys/conf             files
> : >   Log:
> : >   Collapse the two identical emu10k1-alsa%diked.h creation rules for
> : >   snd_emu10k1 and snd_emu10kx into one line.  The 'pci' dependency he=
re
> : >   adds no value, so I eliminted it (we don't have a snd.all file that
> : >   might make it mildly useful, and even then it wouldn't be that
> : >   useful).  With the pci optional component eliminated, I could use t=
he
> : >   '|' operator.  I could have also include pci on both sides of the |
> : >   operator, but since it isn't a value add at all, it was better to
> : >   eliminate it.
> :=20
> : Nice. Is this stuff documented somewhere?
>=20
> No.  A lot of this is black magic voodoo :-(.  Would make a good
> project to document config.  However, I fear that once documented, the
> mythical replacement would actually arrive...
>=20
What "mythical replacement" do you mean?  :-)

BTW, if anyone is interested in documenting the format of "files",
it should go into a subsection of the config(5) manpage.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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