From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 09:09:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00CC16A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:09:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu (mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB9243D1F for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:09:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu) X-Envelope-From: koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu X-Envelope-To: Received: from sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.96.70]) by mail.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.11.7/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i1MH92J00341 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:09:03 -0600 Received: from sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i1MH935D023010 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:09:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from koziol@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu) Received: (from koziol@localhost) by sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1MH93ng023009 for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:09:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from koziol) From: Quincey Koziol Message-Id: <200402221709.i1MH93ng023009@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040222085601.6300416A4E2@hub.freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:09:03 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99f (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Aligning GENERIC with NOTES? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:09:04 -0000 Hi David, > Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:52:39 -0800 > From: David Syphers > Subject: Re: Aligning GENERIC with NOTES? > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <200402212252.39420.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Since you seem determined to do this... Not at all - I don't have a commit bit after all... :-) I just wanted to give something back to FreeBSD after being happy to use it all these years and this was something straightforward I could help with. > On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:21 pm, Quincey Koziol wrote: > > I've tried to add information from the NOTES files where appropriate, > > This is nice info to have, but absolutely _not_ in GENERIC. Making a file like > GENERIC.comments might not be a bad idea. Having these comments in GENERIC > makes it a pain to edit by hand, which I do often (so many lines that have > nothing to do with real content). Having a separate file with these would > still help out beginners (would have helped me back then), but wouldn't > severely inconvenience people who know what they're doing, like your current > setup does. > > Also... everyone has their own idea of logical. Example: you don't have > WITNESS under debugging options. And SMP debugging options are next to > neither regular debugging options nor SMP options. Maybe that makes sense to > you. The order doesn't totally seem "logical" to me - I was just trying to make it closer to the order and format of things in the NOTES files. > Still, you do have a decent case that GENERIC could be put in slightly more > logical order, and I agree with some of your changes. Here's hoping that it > turns out well, It doesn't have to be this order, I'm just offering my suggestions. Quincey