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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:43:04 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [ alpha ] supplement to beast becoming available (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20010713114304.A68294@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107131046170.74809-100000@beppo>; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:51:41AM -0700
References:  <20010713104150.B66961@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107131046170.74809-100000@beppo>

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> We could, but:

We could what?

> #To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints
> #hints          "GENERIC.hints"

Note that hints are still compiled into the kernel even with the above
line commented out, if GENERIC.hints in the directory with GENERIC (or
maybe it is `.').  The hints compiled in this way, have a "lower
priority" associated with them; but they can still get in the way.  I
really don't like this 'feature' of including hints if the file exists
w/o a "hints" include directive.  But it seems Peter got bullied into
doing things this way.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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