Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:27:28 -0600 (CST) From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aligning GENERIC with NOTES? Message-ID: <200402162027.i1GKRS8O056795@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzpd68ezsnh.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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Hi Dag-Erling,
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> Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:
> > I've been running FreeBSD for many years without contributing much other
> > than bug reports and I'd like to help a bit. I'd like to make the contents
> > of the GENERIC configuration file (for 5-CURRENT) more similar to the contents
> > of the NOTES files, in order to ease creating custom kernel configurations.
>
> Don't. NOTES and GENERIC have very specific and very different
> purposes. NOTES is designed to maximize coverage, while GENERIC is
> designed to work on as many different systems as possible.
I don't want to change the contents of GENERIC. I wanted to change the
_order_ of the items in GENERIC to be closer to the order of the items in the
NOTES files. This would make creating custom kernel configs easier (for me
anyway :-).
Quincey
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