From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 24 0: 2:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C7537B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:02:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF3A43FB1 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:02:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 63FBB5308; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:02:48 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:02:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030224064129.GA13290@dhcp53.pn.xcllnt.net> (Marcel Moolenaar's message of "Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:41:29 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <20030224001644.GA67255@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030224120037.D4403-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20030224023118.GD67312@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030224040250.GA19558@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030224062029.GA6648@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030224064129.GA13290@dhcp53.pn.xcllnt.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar writes: > o devices, options and hints are related in a particular way that > config(8) doesn't handle. Removal of a device automaticly > implies removal of its options and hints. On the other hand, > Removal of hints and/or options does not imply removal of the > device. The "nodevice" approach has no way for config(8) to > honour the relationship and causes pollution and duplication > (such as the sed in the makefile), or worse: conflicts. Run the combined ../../conf/NOTES and ./NOTES through cpp on the way to LINT. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message