From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 2 23:25:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566EE16A41F for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 23:25:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (adsl-52-22.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.52.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1EE43D45 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 23:25:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from [203.29.62.199] (helo=[203.29.62.199]) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EXS2U-0002Cd-AY; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:29:06 +1100 In-Reply-To: <20051102220954.GM69015@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <075001c5dff5$e859fbc0$8adb7bd1@icarz.com> <20051102220954.GM69015@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4E4399E3-023C-48D7-8657-26A167318EE2@ish.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Aristedes Maniatis Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 10:25:28 +1100 To: stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Cc: Subject: Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:25:34 -0000 On 03/11/2005, at 9:09 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:39:30PM -0500, Ken Menzel wrote: >> ... >> If I include GENERIC can I comment out the following? >> #cpu I486_CPU >> #cpu I586_CPU > > Well, it's your (copy of) the file; I suppose you can do whatever you > want to with it. :-) Ken's original point is a valid one. The way we have created config files in the past was to duplicate GENERIC and edit the copy. Recent postings have indicated that the new methodology will be to 'include' GENERIC and override certain features using the nodevice tag. This sounds like a great idea to avoid using diff to figure out what crucial features changed from one release to another. But it will only be useful if we don't have to edit the GENERIC file. Otherwise we are back where we started, editing a file which is overwritten by cvsup. Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 PGP fingerprint 08 57 20 4B 80 69 59 E2 A9 BF 2D 48 C2 20 0C C8