From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 13:27:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71910106566C; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:27:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2CB8FC17; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:27:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1RNlhl-0006XN-7I>; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:27:09 +0100 Received: from telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.198]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1RNlhl-0005i0-5C>; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:27:09 +0100 Message-ID: <4EB92E2C.2010402@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:27:08 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111031 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Niclas Zeising References: <4EB9142D.3090705@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4EB92ADA.6080309@daemonic.se> In-Reply-To: <4EB92ADA.6080309@daemonic.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 130.133.86.198 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:33:01 +0000 Cc: Current FreeBSD , "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS 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 Nov 2011 13:27:10 -0000 Am 11/08/11 14:12, schrieb Niclas Zeising: > On 11/08/11 12:36, O. Hartmann wrote: >> Sorry for the boring question, but is the default configuration file >> /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS anywhere include in a regular configuration >> file for the kernel while building the kernel? >> >> I looked for include statements in GENERIC, but didn't find one. I use >> custom kernel config files and adapt most changes from the NOTES files >> in the sources tree. >> >> With the today's update of README in /sys/amd64/conf I realised some >> important changes, so this triggered my question. >> >> I simply made an additional "include" in the custom config file, but if >> this isn't necessary, I'll delete it again. And I'm interested in how >> the kernel is built from. It is a very convenient way to type simply >> "make kerne" in /usr/src/, but it vanishes to much of the complexity and >> understanding how the system builds and could cause problems. >> >> Thanks for your patience and tahnks in advance, >> >> Regards, >> Oliver > > From my understanding of things, the DEFAULTS kernel configuration file > is automatically included into the build by config(8). There is no need > to include it into the generic using the "include" statement. It was > first added 6 years ago, on October 27 2005. > Regards! Thank you very much.