Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:42:31 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Subject: Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 ) Message-ID: <14956.43335.171799.155466@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010122133417.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200101222049.f0MKnv912117@harmony.village.org> <XFMail.010122133417.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> types: > > On 22-Jan-01 Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <14956.39955.318792.388889@guru.mired.org> Mike Meyer writes: > >: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> types: > >: > It is in the handbook, and has been for some time. I'm reviewing the > >: > recent KERNEL -> KERNCONF changes to make sure that they make it into > >: > the handbook properly (I assume there will be a MFC in a few days, > >: > since putting KERNEL in /etc/make.conf is a setup for disaster right > >: > now). > >: > >: Could you also make sure it makes it into /etc/defaults/make.conf > >: (KERNEL isn't mentioned there at all) and make.conf(5)? > > > > That's really Peter's job since he made the change without any lead > > time at all to resolve issues like this. I'll see what I can do to > > backstop things, but it really isn't my baby. When people change > > things that have impact in different parts of the whole tree, they > > should be the ones to make the changes to those different parts of the > > tree, or at least submit patches to the maintainers of those parts of > > the tree. > Erm, if it wasn't documented in the first place, making a change doesn't > put the burden of documenting the old behavior on the person making the change. > Are there any kernel manpages for all of the oldcard and newcard API's floating > around btw? (As an example.) I agree it should be documented, but just > because Peter made the change doesn't mean that the onus that the people who > originally did buildkernel didn't bother to document it in places like > make.conf(5) should fall on Peter. KERNEL is documented in make.conf(5), but not in /etc/defaults/make.conf. Since the only thing in the latter that's anything other than a comment is BDECFLAGS, I suggested nuking most of /etc/defaults/make.conf and putting in a pointer to make.conf(5). That way, this stuff only needs to be documented in one place. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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