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Date:      Fri, 29 May 2009 22:44:37 +0200
From:      Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Steven Schlansker <scs@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject:   Re: pfsync in GENERIC?
Message-ID:  <200905292244.37398.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On Friday 29 May 2009 20:38:54 Steven Schlansker wrote:

> And not to be argumentative, but sys/conf/NOTES does not really
> provide any information.  The only comment explains what the device
> does, not why it wouldn't be enabled in GENERIC.  Is there any reason
> it could not be?  (For those of us who want to use freebsd-update, for
> example)

Choice of the project. You'd have to ask on -current, -pf or -hackers for a 
more authoritative answer, but my guess would be that 80% of the people using 
this feature in production have a highly optimized kernel and wouldn't be 
using GENERIC to begin with.

-- 
Mel



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