From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 22 01:59:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5DE933 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:59:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (mail-vb0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F258FC13 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f54.google.com with SMTP id l1so10367724vba.13 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:59:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=7j0kBul2K1Uny89qbG8uS+qSfzxwDB/9/Nd10cddcb0=; b=Z02ZtYiWj8stOHy5kutTok3uGOmHIoqR5m/V09NDrDF7fbnUdfqMZ73XtLnRhtL9Wg 8G8IbeH4ExmJCOM3QwYGzI+7zgaDG8nVBRIp1noiIsbFBGdFbgquQ6th8xM2Qf5StS/R PvuH3TaWquO/G7DfWigyaNRYJLZtGo2WlHJ/w= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=7j0kBul2K1Uny89qbG8uS+qSfzxwDB/9/Nd10cddcb0=; b=kKmMJv8ukwQ4yE/FtA9nam1thRBvz6pDlPuU3vao6mWNEiyjJmt2CTXbVv14LY4KTv kdMRcb4DO3QtCCwtqL0GbzHYzljlL0O41EAvgYU4Zl3wqRoN6vTd6aY59Xo1pnCdtHJc 0BBVHkLNuXGJRmDzecMp4rs7BHu1lfbne/Rq45YmGpFRQdEqyYL2IbEozwDCP+lASo26 LaWyyG4WCkyrnPu302o77UzRRnqsZJDljshi7VQ5AbsACJ8Qn8iGyhndnttXEEm4AJ1S ujHHyUM1QRqMlG71xLXw+0+MbQyrFTH/SdPSkrbvu7jsFUJFE3aWZ1BwVtEHtnM3ZZJ5 amWQ== Received: by 10.52.90.241 with SMTP id bz17mr3808935vdb.40.1353549560073; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:59:20 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.155.197 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:58:49 -0800 (PST) From: Eitan Adler Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:58:49 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: old style kernel configuration To: FreeBSD Hackers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmLndQY2m5ZktsvJK2pPcV1eyTR0HwU2Gj82sr6C3TBC6gjhTyZ8STDQaoLpBuLL1uwcny7 Cc: Benjamin Kaduk X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:59:21 -0000 I've been working on removing obsolete information various documents. While going through older articles I noticed a few references to the "old style" kernel configuration involving running config(1) manually. Is there any value in keeping this documented as an alternative to "make buildkernel" or should it be treated as an implementation detail? -- Eitan Adler