Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:49:48 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS Message-ID: <20051030104948.GA32502@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <d8a4930a0510300236x472292bav@mail.gmail.com> References: <d8a4930a0510300236x472292bav@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:36:46AM +0100, Cristiano Deana wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to > 'DEFAULTS': > > device isa > > device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices > device io # I/O device > > Why? > What does it mean? Should we include 'DEFAULTS' in our customized 'GENERIC'? It's included by DEFAULT. > Or those lines are no more mandatory? The point of a DEFAULTS file is that to contain things that are used by DEFAULT, including those which are mandatory. > I think it should be written in 'UPDATING'. No action is necessary. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDZKVMWry0BWjoQKURAvmlAKD7r7ZMI7BxMpGZiftYEOshqEb1igCcDm79 3fYgcoAJ//zPZCEZkaLgfZQ= =OkeU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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