Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:25:41 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 acpi.4 Message-ID: <4032B105.1040005@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20040217160751.Q31680@root.org> References: <20040217203852.724BE16A567@hub.freebsd.org> <20040217125043.N30568@root.org> <20040217215309.GA31288@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040217143034.B31176@root.org> <20040217230348.GB31288@dragon.nuxi.com> <4032AB2D.60008@acm.org> <20040217160751.Q31680@root.org>
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Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>
>>Seems like it might be time to evaluate ways to separate
>>the "default hints" from the "custom hints".
>> /boot/defaults/device.hints, anyone?
>
> This is not helpful since my whole point was not to create more places
> where user overrides go. loader.conf is blank by default, therefore it's
> an easy place to put overrides for both hints and tunables. Going and
> creating two separate files that are blank by default only increases
> confusion.
Okay, so what exactly is the difference between
/boot/defaults/loader.conf
and
/boot/device.hints
?
If device hints can go in loader.conf with impunity,
and we already have defaults/loader.conf (which people
know to leave alone) and the regular loader.conf
(for local customizations), then it's not clear
why device.hints exists at all.
Tim Kientzle
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