From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 5 10:09:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA07862 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 10:09:53 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA07843 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 10:09:41 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA24909 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 19:09:31 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA16575 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 19:09:31 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA28347 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 17:51:44 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511051651.RAA28347@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 17:51:43 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511051031.VAA32280@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 5, 95 09:31:26 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 799 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >I'll go along with that. "Not found" also scares off people who don't > >realize that it's a normal state of affairs. > > It's only normal (and not good) for GENERIC and other bloated kernels. Yup. How to distinguish? Support for ``ident FOO'' ==> ``#define FOO'' has been dropped recently. So it's perhaps best to add ``options GENERIC_KERNEL'' instead? Uah, how many people would leave this one in their taylored config files... certainly the same as those who left ``ident GENERIC'' there. :) I really don't like the two dozen ``foo: not found at address ...'' messages for the installation kernel. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)