Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:57:43 +0100 From: "Philip S. Schulz" <ph.schulz@gmx.de> To: Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS Message-ID: <4364A727.9090106@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <d8a4930a0510300236x472292bav@mail.gmail.com> References: <d8a4930a0510300236x472292bav@mail.gmail.com>
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on 30.10.2005 11:36 Uhr Cristiano Deana said the following: > Hi, > > I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to > 'DEFAULTS': > > device isa > > device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices > device io # I/O device > > Why? > What does it mean? Should we include 'DEFAULTS' in our customized 'GENERIC'? > Or those lines are no more mandatory? > No, you don't need to include 'DEFAULTS', config(8) will take care of that for you. http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200510271713.j9RHDNTo013082 AFAICT, this was done in order to automatically include devices which are essential in most cases so less experienced users won't accidentally break their systems and later complain that e.g. X doesn't work anymore. HTH, Phil. -- Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
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