From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 20:37:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6019416A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 20:37:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from mail.starlofashions.com (mail.starlofashions.com [12.44.50.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72C643D54 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 20:37:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from uws1.starlofashions.com ([192.168.8.230]) by mail.starlofashions.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA10858 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 16:37:27 -0400 Received: by uws1.starlofashions.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 24 May 2005 16:37:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:37:28 -0400 From: Scott Robbins To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050524203727.GA52915@uws1.starlofashions.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200505241207.35873.fcash@ocis.net> <20050524191424.GA52486@uws1.starlofashions.com> <200505241227.22642.fcash@ocis.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505241227.22642.fcash@ocis.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:37:29 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:27:21PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > On May 24, 2005 12:14 pm, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > > The other is for items that apply to all CPU architectures, and is > > > located at /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES. > > > > You have to read both. The PREEMPTION option is in the second file > > > above. > > > Judging from the forums and various other things, it seems that a lot of > > people aren't aware of the second NOTES file. (Of course, you can do > > make LINT while in /conf, which I blush to admit, is what I did > > before I realized the existance of the second NOTES file. :) > > From the top of /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES: > > # NOTES -- Lines that can be cut/pasted into kernel and hints configs. > # > # This file contains machine dependent kernel configuration notes. For > # machine independent notes, look in /sys/conf/NOTES. > > Like they say, doesn't matter how good the documentation is if nobody reads > it fully. :) True, but in general, having gotten used to LINT, usually, I would just check notes for syntax--for instance, I might see something about PREEMPTION and just do (while in i386/conf) grep PREEMPT NOTES. What's the old Calvin and Hobbes line? "Have you looked at the manual?" "WHAT? Do I look like a sissy?" You're right of course, Fred, but in honesty, it's been awhile since I read NOTES (or LINT in the old days) top to bottom. Heh, I was more careful when I was a complete novice--err, not that I'm any sort of expert now. :) - -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCk5CH+lTVdes0Z9YRAoHTAJ9kU9sF9u0fUE5bWOoImb+TdkutZwCbBguG UuC9okCTDRkQ33FXeyU9usg= =Fh5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----