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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: config(8) moved to /usr/src/sys (was Re: Kernel rebuild quits ..)
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John S. Dyson writes:
> Once, long ago, a group of us had a disagreement that the config
> sources should be part of the kernel tree (which I champion.)  Maybe
> this should be revisited -- since the config program *does* have
> to have intimate knowedge of and actually *does* produce kernel
> code (like genassym.)  Mess-ups associated with bogus versions of
> config have a possibility of being controlled then.

I'm with you John!  Go for it!


Nate