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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf DEFAULTS GENERIC
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Scott Long wrote this message on Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:52 -0700:
> > I'm also curious why we don't explicitly 'include'
> >DEFAULTS in GENERIC vs. the new automagic include feature.
> 
> Because if it was specifically mentioned in the GENERIC config file then
> it would be deleted by people who don't understand what it does or why
> it's important, and it would be missed by people writing config files
> from scratch or migrating from previous versions of FreeBSD.

I'm sorry, I don't buy this...  The reason:
device		npx

If you don't get it, think about it.

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