From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 22 04:07:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C1B283 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:07:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bryan@shatow.net) Received: from secure.xzibition.com (secure.xzibition.com [173.160.118.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93C28FC13 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:07:04 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=shatow.net; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sweb; b=n948LC 612ISp7mnX7hdsGcB8YiZjGjD/LLagjCWBwJ8sb5tOh0QZOHaM4H8gBWytqUxyaL X8En2WBd/Z2/63233xFDNaO7/yRsUG1TQvl9KVrr/JZzNBgfCBueqTEZcRKmEkc8 2DrhQpQpe+rD0e5+831SQuCyLJx1yd8AiDTRQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=shatow.net; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sweb; bh=r4EAEzmov7gw NHo98QKLWPD2ftBFTMjWc+HFitjP2To=; b=CLf7V3tiYnI4AWoNaihTlIkL843K /C1uZniIqIEpjAdMZOdTId1OqNWotMfm6hm0dxpDs894aUkWwfWfz+t27pFibnbr ztJtRLyyYS0EwAPEsbNcNBlpRXufUrN3Es+j5M0M2Nodj41yIXE84qnal71etvap wz/Mx9+xvpK/Dkg= Received: (qmail 25445 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2012 22:06:56 -0600 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.0.115?) (bryan@shatow.net@10.10.0.115) by sweb.xzibition.com with ESMTPA; 21 Nov 2012 22:06:56 -0600 Message-ID: <50ADA4DD.5010801@shatow.net> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:06:53 -0600 From: Bryan Drewery User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Devin Teske Subject: Re: old style kernel configuration References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 OpenPGP: id=3C9B0CF9; url=http://www.shatow.net/bryan/bryan.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:09:54 +0000 Cc: Eitan Adler , Benjamin Kaduk , FreeBSD Hackers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:07:05 -0000 On 11/21/2012 8:21 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> I've been working on removing obsolete information various documents. >> While going through older articles I noticed a few references to the >> "old style" kernel configuration involving running config(1) manually. >> > > I always build kernels with config(1) because it allows me to embed the _entire_ kernel config into the kernel (by using the "-C" option to config(1)). > > Otherwise, if I rely only on the INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE parameter, the comments are stripped from my config prior to embedding (and this is undesirable and thus why we always configure our kernel by executing "config -C -g configname"). > > >> Is there any value in keeping this documented as an alternative to >> "make buildkernel" or should it be treated as an implementation detail? >> > > Value: ability to embed entire config (comments and all) into the kernel > > Maybe this difference/value should be documented. > Maybe it makes sense to add INCLUDE_ENTIRE_CONFIG_FILE? Bryan