From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 07:40:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C059A106566C; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (acme.spoerlein.net [IPv6:2a01:198:206::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC608FC16; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:40:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (localhost.spoerlein.net [IPv6:::1]) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0H7e1JJ040736 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:40:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Received: (from uqs@localhost) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0H7e1Qb040735; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:40:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:40:01 +0100 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= To: Peter Jeremy Message-ID: <20100117074001.GJ96430@acme.spoerlein.net> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Jeremy , "Robert N. M. Watson" , svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org References: <4B4E1586.7090102@FreeBSD.org> <20100114.102142.328914705071816274.imp@bsdimp.com> <20100114.105622.457034909117828677.imp@bsdimp.com> <4B4F7810.2080003@FreeBSD.org> <86625798-F339-4863-8F97-63B5232A6CF7@freebsd.org> <20100115085856.GA2556@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100115085856.GA2556@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "Robert N. M. Watson" , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE in GENERIC X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:40:08 -0000 On Fri, 15.01.2010 at 19:58:57 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2010-Jan-14 20:12:24 +0000, "Robert N. M. Watson" wrote: > >- Desktop/server users who want their system to work without any > > special tuning or magic, and likely feel the comments they put in > > configuration files are important > > As far as I'm concerned, the most critical bit of my kernel config file > is the $Header...$ comment - which lets me extract the remainder of the > file from my CVS repository. I don't currently use includes (because > most of my config files have roots pre-dating the include directive). > > I find it a PITA that INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE _doesn't_ include comments > (or at least my $Header$ line) by default. Seriously, is that the only "comment" people care about? I really have a hard time coming up with *important* stuff that people put in config's comments and then somehow lose the connection between comment and running kernel. > IMO, it would be useful to have an "include this literal string in the > kernel" config directive. This would allow config file version control > information to be embedded without needing the comments. And that would > resolve the issue of embedding fully expanded details of all included > files without the hassle of keeping the comments around. Ok, this I can understand. We could then call this directive something ... um like ident perhaps? :) Seems like all that people want to do is simply: cpu i386 ident SERVER descr "$Id: foo,v" That shouldn't be too hard? FWIW I think it is more important to have a way to recreate the current running kernel than to get a verbatim/expanded copy of all config files used to create it in the first place. Just my two cents, Uli