From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 1 22:57:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA28791 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 22:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obiwan.psinet.net.au (obiwan.psinet.net.au [203.19.28.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA28786 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 22:56:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.psinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA01714; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:36:38 +0800 (WST) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:36:38 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: Nadav Eiron cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LINT and GENERIC - between a rock and a generic place. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [snip] > is the first step (same goes for npx0, FFS, COMPAT_43, loop etc.). I think > what would be better is for config, or even the kernel's makefile, to do > some sanity checks and spit out warnings like: > > *** You didn't put in INET. There's a good chance your kernel won't > boot *** > *nod*, have a file somewhere with the mandatory options? Means we would only have to hack config up once, then we just add to this file when "madatory" options change. > This sure will save bandwidth on -questions, and many frustrated newbies > from climbing up on walls. > > Yet another $.02 (I think someone is getting rich here collecting these > cents :-) ). Don't joke about that. ;) Fine. Michael, want to share what you've done so far? Who else has done a bit of work on it ? I'd *really* like even just a dialog-based kernel build tool. (Although, I suppose, how about we use TurboVision ? :) I can setup a mailing list if people are interested. I just think "committee" way of doing things never gets anywhere :-) Adrian.