From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jul 13 14: 9:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A8E37B401; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (mjacob@beppo [192.67.166.79]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6DL9aS77288; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:09:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:09:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Peter Wemm , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ alpha ] supplement to beast becoming available (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20010713114304.A68294@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message