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Subject: Re: LINT file?
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Shaun T. Erickson wrote:

> Matt Emmerton wrote:
> 
>> cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
>> make LINT
>>
>> Note that the LINT kernel is _strictly_ a list of all the possible 
>> things to
>> put in your kernel config -- there are no explanatory comments anymore.
> 
> 
> That's a shame. I was counting on the comments to educate me. Can you 
> point me to any other documentation that might cover what I find in that 
> file?
> 
>     -ste

You would be looking for the NOTES file in /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf?

There is also a NOTES file in, erm, /usr/src/sys/conf IIRC.

Dave