From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 22:52:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 870A316A4CE for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:52:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from yggdrasil.seektruth.org (D-128-208-61-34.dhcp4.washington.edu [128.208.61.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D9243D1F for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:52:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsyphers@seektruth.org) Received: from yggdrasil.seektruth.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i1M6qdYZ050154 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:52:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsyphers@seektruth.org) Received: by yggdrasil.seektruth.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1M6qdlO050153 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:52:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsyphers) From: David Syphers To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:52:39 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <200402220621.i1M6LkkI035046@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200402220621.i1M6LkkI035046@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402212252.39420.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Aligning GENERIC with NOTES? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 06:52:35 -0000 Since you seem determined to do this... On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:21 pm, Quincey Koziol wrote: > I've tried to add information from the NOTES files where appropriate, This is nice info to have, but absolutely _not_ in GENERIC. Making a file like GENERIC.comments might not be a bad idea. Having these comments in GENERIC makes it a pain to edit by hand, which I do often (so many lines that have nothing to do with real content). Having a separate file with these would still help out beginners (would have helped me back then), but wouldn't severely inconvenience people who know what they're doing, like your current setup does. Also... everyone has their own idea of logical. Example: you don't have WITNESS under debugging options. And SMP debugging options are next to neither regular debugging options nor SMP options. Maybe that makes sense to you. Still, you do have a decent case that GENERIC could be put in slightly more logical order, and I agree with some of your changes. Here's hoping that it turns out well, -David -- Department of Physics The University of Washington, Seattle