Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 03:42:54 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: andreas@klemm.gtn.com, jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LINT is missing examples for sio1-3 ? GENERIC does so Message-ID: <18215.884173374@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 20:56:41 %2B1100." <199801070956.UAA08688@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> Newbies shouldn't know to look there. It's never been in sync with > GENERIC and has always had a different purpose. It's original purpose > wasn't documentation - it was for checking the kernel sources, and Unfortunately, I have to note in regard to this last point that it very definitely *has* become documentation and whether that was anyone's original intentions or not. It has simply evolved, like so many things in FreeBSD. I and many other people use "see LINT" as a popular answer to kernel configuration questions because, unfortunatly, it's really all there is - the Handbook which you haven't read also hasn't got this sort of documentation in it anyway, so you and the users haven't missed anything. :( Given all of that, a more compromising attitute towards LINT in the meantime would probably be warranted. That is unless Bruce is prepared to suddenly document in the Handbook what noone else has dared to challenge before. :-) Jordan
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