Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:41:04 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf NOTES Message-ID: <20010116104104.J91029@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101152130160.16568-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:34:45PM %2B1100 References: <200101150645.f0F6j3g08834@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101152130160.16568-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On 2001-Jan-15 21:34:45 +1100, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > >> dillon 2001/01/14 22:45:03 PST >> >> Modified files: >> sys/i386/conf NOTES >> Log: >> Make NSWAPDEV reasonable so people do not mistakenly use unreasonable >> values when creating custom kernels from LINT. > >LINT is not supposed to have reasonable values. It is supposed to have >values different from the defaults so that unusual values get tested. GENERIC suggests reading NOTES aka LINT for further parameters. Whilst we might want LINT to have an unreasonable but valid value in order to stress that particular part of the LINT kernel, when a user refers to LINT to get a parameter, he normally wants a reasonable value. (In any case, a value different to the default can still be reasonable). In this case, since NSWAPDEV defaults to 4, I'd suggest the NOTES have either 5 or 3. This ensures that any swap code that expects there to be a power-of-2 number of swap devices is exposed. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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