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Date:      Sun, 25 Apr 1999 03:40:21 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        chris@calldei.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Heads up! config(8) changes.. 
Message-ID:  <19990424194023.A6C111F58@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Apr 1999 14:38:02 EST." <19990424143801.B11941@holly.dyndns.org> 

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Chris Costello wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > This shouldn't cause much in the way of trouble, but it will complain
> > about old lint in your config files.  That includes 'net/tty/bio/cam'
> > mask indicators, and 'vector xxxintr' as well as some of the wierder
> > workarounds for the poor 'options' parsing.
> >
> > So: things like:
> > device sio1 at isa? tty port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3
> > become:
> > device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq3
> >
> > options "VM86"                ->   options VM86
> > options "_KPOSIX_FOO=12345L"  ->   options _KPOSIX_FOO=12345L
> > etc.
> 
>    Excellent!  Why wasn't this done before?

Probably because the code was a nightmare.. :-)

Cheers,
-Peter



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