From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 10:12:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1CF216A400 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 10:12:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-3-125.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.3.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC6C13C44C for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 10:12:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l48ACdxd001186; Tue, 8 May 2007 20:12:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l48ACd0B001185; Tue, 8 May 2007 20:12:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 20:12:39 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: "Wojciech A. Koszek" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070508101239.GB838@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20070506164247.GA77786@FreeBSD.czest.pl> <200705072054.l47KsJwg044996@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070507234239.GA2343@FreeBSD.czest.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070507234239.GA2343@FreeBSD.czest.pl> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Cc: Subject: Re: INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 08 May 2007 10:12:44 -0000 --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2007-May-07 23:42:39 +0000, "Wojciech A. Koszek" w= rote: >"What did this strange guy put into that kernel image to make it work >correctly" And the extension of this is "why did he do that?" - which he would have mentioned in the comments. >and similar cases people described earlier. Noone mentioned about a >comments issue. Because no-one has suggested that comments be stripped out before. >Once you know what had been included into your configuration file before >accident, you can find respective comment into src/sys//conf >directory. In which case, you might as well not bother with the content at all. The 'include FOO' line will let you find the relevant file in src/sys//conf >I don't think comments are really all that important. I presume you don't do any software maintenance. Comments can be absolutely essential to understand why decisions were made. --=20 Peter Jeremy --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGQE0X/opHv/APuIcRAr9QAJwJfzWvFDhothMNJXNj+AW2sVcxcgCgjyuA 8Wvn17vtWtHARS/FB7WGAAA= =I4G7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X--