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From: Pat Barron <pat@transarc.com>
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Subject: Documentation for "config"
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This may sound like a silly question, but does anyone have any 
documentation for how config(8) works?  That is, given a configuration 
file, what does config actually do with it, and how?  Like, what's the 
difference (in the stuff generated by config) between

     controller foo0 ....

and

     device foo0 ....

and

     psuedo-device foo

or between

     disk dk0 ...

and

     tape dk0 ...

I know that just about everyone who's ever done kernel hacking has just 
plodded through the source code for config to figure this out, and I have 
no problem with that, but if there's a doc I'd like to see it ... ;-)

--Pat.