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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:09:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [ alpha ] supplement to beast becoming available (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107131409080.74809-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <20010713114304.A68294@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, David O'Brien wrote:

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

Nuke GENERIC.hints.

> 
> > #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.
>  

That I didn't know. I guess your way is right then.

-matt



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