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> References: <4EB9142D.3090705@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4EB92ADA.6080309@daemonic.se> <30719078.XD2KNDdpQA@funbeast> <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: >>> 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! >> >> Not sure if you already know this, or not but another thing to keep in mind, >> if a module is not mentioned, or is commented out, then it will still be >> built, just not included into the monolithic kernel. >> >> If you were already aware of this, then my apologies. >> >> Chuck > > > Hello. > > 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. > > 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. > > And for FBSD 10.0/amd64, it has been started to use a VFS-option for > loading thread safe filesystems. > 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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