Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:02:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, wkoszek@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improved INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE Message-ID: <200703271702.l2RH2vmC017242@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20070326171016.GA16746@FreeBSD.czest.pl>
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Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > No objection from me, but please fix it so include files > > are also included in the kernel. > > > > Many of my kernel config files have only few lines (e.g. > > "options SMP" and "include MYKERNEL"). Currently, the > > INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE feature only includes those two lines, > > rendering that feature useless (and even potentially > > dangerous if someone relies on his config to be in the > > kernel). > > You'll get full configuration file, no matter what you include. After > redirecting it to file, you'll be able to compile the kernel with no > additional modifications. That sounds OK. Will that fix be MFCed back to RELENG_6? I could really use it, because I often use include files in kernel configurations. By the way, it would be cool to have an ELF section in the kernel that contains a .tar.gz with the kernel config and all included files. No, just kidding. Couldn't resist. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "IRIX is about as stable as a one-legged drunk with hypothermia in a four-hundred mile per hour wind, balancing on a banana peel on a greased cookie sheet -- when someone throws him an elephant with bad breath and a worse temper." -- Ralf Hildebrandt
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