From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 12:38:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA11573 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:38:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11566 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:38:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA08562; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:30:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601192030.NAA08562@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: npx0 device To: max@maxie.com Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:30:40 -0700 (MST) Cc: mpp@mpp.minn.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601190844.DAA01900@underdog.maxie.com> from "max@maxie.com" at Jan 19, 96 03:44:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >I seem to recall that some documentation out there tells new > >users to start with GENERIC and add/remove lines from that file > >as needed. GENERIC probably needs a line in it that warns the npx0 is > >not optional. > > That, or a clearer explaination to refer to LINT for what each > config line means. I seem to remember one of the install documents was not > real clear on that, but I don't remember which one. > > Actually, is there any real reason why GENERIC can't have comments > about what ALL of the lines mean, instead of them just appearing in the LINT > file? Actually, there's no real reason why the npx0 device requires a config line at all. That just happens to be the way the files are set up. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.