Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:14:55 -0500 From: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r366088 - in head/sys: amd64/conf conf i386/conf x86/conf Message-ID: <CACNAnaF-rAg0OO3gFha9indEPCF6EG=8zrWFzdL1im92ngiQRw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <202009231918.08NJIsgj042617@repo.freebsd.org> References: <202009231918.08NJIsgj042617@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 2:19 PM Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Author: imp > Date: Wed Sep 23 19:18:53 2020 > New Revision: 366088 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366088 > > Log: > Use envvar rather than nonstandard hint. lines > > The NOTES files have a bunch of hint lines that are removed when > generating LINT. However, we can achieve the same effect by prepending > each of the lines with 'envvar' so the NOTES files become standard > config(8) files. No functional changes as the sed script to generate > the LINT files filters these either way. > > Suggested by: kevans > I've got a follow-up proposal that I'll pitch at some point: let's drop static hints and just stuff it all into the static env. I fixed that stuff a while ago so that dumping them into the static env will no longer disable the loader kenv by default, and I can't imagine many scenarios where the difference will be important -- I suspect static kenv is rarely used as it is. THanks, Kyle Evans
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