From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 5 5:37:46 2003 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 24C3337B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (user38.net339.fl.sprint-hsd.net [65.40.24.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25DAE43F85 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:37:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bv@wjv.com) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (localhost.wjv.com [127.0.0.1]) by bilver.wjv.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h15DbQLI028038 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:37:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bv@wjv.com) Received: (from bv@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h15DbPbg028037 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:37:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:37:25 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error making new kernel Message-ID: <20030205133725.GG26955@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park ReplyTo: bv@wjv.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,NOSPAM_INC,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:54:22 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen > Subject: Re: error making new kernel > > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 14:35, Erik Paulsen Sk=E5lerud > wrote: > > > This is a pretty frequent question that I see alot of on the > > lists and in different FreeBSD-channels on IRC. > > Perhaps someone should implent some kind of kernel-config > > checker that sees over the config and tells the user if > > something important is missing (like scsbus and da if you're > > going to use umass). I am sure that there are several other > > things it could check aswell. > > I'd love to make one myself, the only problem is that I don't know > > enough about shell-scripting to do this. > That shouldn't really be needed. If people took the time to > read the comments in the GENERIC and LINT files, they would > never get dependancy problems :) And his GENERIC differs from the GENERIC I have. The scbus IS defined in GENERIC. I'm suspecting that the person who posted this originally modified GENERIC but did not say so. I always make sure my GENERIC is always untouched because I've never had a problem compiling an untouched GENERIC. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message