Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:03:48 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 acpi.4 Message-ID: <20040217230348.GB31288@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040217143034.B31176@root.org> References: <20040217203852.724BE16A567@hub.freebsd.org> <20040217125043.N30568@root.org> <20040217215309.GA31288@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040217143034.B31176@root.org>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:32:26PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:52:24PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > Please don't recommend they put the hint in device.hints. That file is > > > regenerated as part of the upgrade process. It should go in > > > /boot/loader.conf, which is already cross-referenced by the manpage. > > > > I don't follow -- /boot/device.hints isn't regenerated. One must have > > one, and upgrading from an older FreeBSD version to 5.x requires you to > > create one. > > I meant the step in UPGRADING that says "cp GENERIC.hints > /boot/device.hints". If people follow that, you lose local changes to > hints. s/UPGRADING/UPDATING/ I think it is clear that one only does the 'cp' if they are upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. I'm not arguing that the knob isn't better living in loader.conf -- just that /boot/devince.hints isn't a [auto]generated file[*] and we can assume it is as "stable" as one's passwd file. -- David [*] I can't even boot w/o my custom device.hints due to the hardwiring I do for SCSI devices. This file cannot become volatile.
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