Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:38:30 -0500 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: <stable@freebsd.org>, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nogobble, nogobble Message-ID: <00db01c5e0f1$3ac02be0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200511040039.RAA21926@lariat.net> <20051104023446.GA12859@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> > Kris said: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:39:28PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > > > My humble opinion, for what it's worth, is that the GENERIC kernel > > configuration should be very heavily commented and documented and > > that the DEFAULT file will then be completely unnecessary. > > Thanks for your $0.02, but that doesn't work in reality, as discussed > previously. Wouldn't have building a config(8) that checked for dependencies a smarter and simpler mechanism? This would have allowed us to keep GENERIC as-is and not violate POLA. Apologies if I missed the discussion -- but the signal-to-noise ratio has been quite high on -stable (and -current) through the 5.x series. For Brett -- the LINT kernel is still around -- but it needs to be generated by hand (since it pulls in platform-specific sections). Try a "make LINT" in /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf. Perhaps this should be part of buildworld and the release procedure so that the proper LINT kernel is available "out of the box". -- Matt Emmerton
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