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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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