From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 19:50:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914CE1065670 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D971535CE; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EB987FF.1040008@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:50:23 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <4EB9142D.3090705@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4EB92ADA.6080309@daemonic.se> <30719078.XD2KNDdpQA@funbeast> <4EB9422B.1080909@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <00E1440E-FFEB-4701-849F-86BBDEEABD31@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <00E1440E-FFEB-4701-849F-86BBDEEABD31@samsco.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Chuck Burns , "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:50:26 -0000 On 11/08/2011 09:33, Scott Long wrote: > > 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. +1 on both counts -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/