From owner-cvs-all Wed Feb 13 15: 7:49 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075DB37B402; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:07:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id CEC535341; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 00:07:43 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Michael Smith Cc: David Malone , Michael Smith , Mike Silbersack , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 options.pc98 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/i386 initcpu.c References: <200202131850.g1DIosg01181@mass.dis.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Feb 2002 00:07:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200202131850.g1DIosg01181@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Smith writes: > This shouldn't be an option either! Much of the kernel suffers from CYA syndrome, with code that shouldn't be optional (or should just be controlled by a tunable or sysctl) made optional, just so the author can reply "it's off by default!" to anyone complaining. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message