From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 15 6:29:32 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16C737B404; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:29:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0FET0x54734; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:29:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200101151429.f0FET0x54734@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bruce Evans Cc: Matt Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf NOTES References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:34:45 +1100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:29:00 -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > > > dillon 2001/01/14 22:45:03 PST > > > > Modified files: > > sys/i386/conf NOTES > > Log: > > Make NSWAPDEV reasonable so people do not mistakenly use unreasonable > > values when creating custom kernels from LINT. > > LINT is not supposed to have reasonable values. It is supposed to have > values different from the defaults so that unusual values get tested. > I normally use the default + 1 if that can work. If there was an obvious source for all the default values, and for all of the available configuration options, I'd certainly use it instead of trolling through LINT/NOTES. When bulding a configuration from scratch, you can't start with GENERIC as an example because it omits a bunch stuff (like sound, IPFILTER, etc.) louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message