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Date:      Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:53:41 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf DEFAULTS GENERIC
Message-ID:  <436532D5.8000906@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051030171611.GW4115@funkthat.com>
References:  <200510271734.j9RHYZAk015054@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051030062148.GA76667@dragon.NUXI.org> <4364D017.1050605@samsco.org> <20051030171611.GW4115@funkthat.com>

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John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Scott Long wrote this message on Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:52 -0700:
> 
>>>I'm also curious why we don't explicitly 'include'
>>>DEFAULTS in GENERIC vs. the new automagic include feature.
>>
>>Because if it was specifically mentioned in the GENERIC config file then
>>it would be deleted by people who don't understand what it does or why
>>it's important, and it would be missed by people writing config files
>>from scratch or migrating from previous versions of FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't buy this...  The reason:
> device		npx
> 
> If you don't get it, think about it.
> 

Guess I'm too dumb to get it.

Scott



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