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Date:      Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:33:21 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        Chuck Burns <chuck@thesouthernlibertarian.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS
Message-ID:  <00E1440E-FFEB-4701-849F-86BBDEEABD31@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <4EB9422B.1080909@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Nov 8, 2011, at 7:52 AM, O. Hartmann wrote:

> Am 11/08/11 14:31, schrieb Chuck Burns:
>> On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 02:12:58 PM Niclas Zeising wrote:
>>> =46rom 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!
>>=20
>> Not sure if you already know this, or not but another thing to keep =
in mind,=20
>> if a module is not mentioned, or is commented out, then it will still =
be=20
>> built, just not included into the monolithic kernel.
>>=20
>> If you were already aware of this, then my apologies.
>>=20
>> Chuck
>=20
>=20
> Hello.
>=20
> well, I'm aware of that, but it doesn't matter. As long as I do not =
use
> a broken or commented out module, it is all right.
>=20
> I was a little bit surprised having options already set I never set in
> the usual config file named after the host's name or GENERIC.
>=20
> And for FBSD 10.0/amd64, it has been started to use a VFS-option for
> loading thread safe filesystems.
>=20

I've never liked that DEFAULTS is magically invisible.  I know that the =
intention was to keep users from shooting their feet off by accidentally =
excluding it from their configs, but I think it creates more confusion =
that it solves.

Scott





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