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Date:      Sun, 18 Jun 2000 16:22:10 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box 
Message-ID:  <200006182322.QAA05375@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2000 18:45:15 PDT." <200006180145.SAA68317@apollo.backplane.com> 

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>     (In general, I don't think I like putting the hints in a separate
>     place or even a separate file... now I have two or three files I have
>     to deal with rather then one config file.  It makes managing bunches
>     of config files annoying.  I wish that the earlier format hadn't been
>     ripped out.  I don't see much of an advantage of moving it into a 
>     loader-accessible file).

The hints file itself is largely just filler; large chunks of it are 
going to go away properly soon as the drivers it's still helping out 
learn more about PnP.

As has already been pointed out, it's also correct for the hints file to 
be associated with the system, not the kernel.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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