From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 30 10:53:59 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 D462416A41F for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:53:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from massimo@cedoc.mo.it) Received: from insomma.datacode.it (ip-152-166.sn2.eutelia.it [83.211.152.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDD343D49 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:53:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from massimo@cedoc.mo.it) Received: from localhost (localhost.datacode.it [127.0.0.1]) by insomma.datacode.it (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EB202C90D for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:53:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from insomma.datacode.it (localhost.datacode.it [127.0.0.1]) by insomma.datacode.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78022C90E for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:53:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from massimo.datacode.it (massimo.datacode.it [192.168.1.13]) by insomma.datacode.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2152C90C for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:53:55 +0100 (CET) From: Massimo Lusetti To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: CEDOC - Modena Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:53:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1130669635.4300.3.camel@massimo.datacode.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS 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: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:53:59 -0000 On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 11:36 +0100, Cristiano Deana wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to > 'DEFAULTS': > > device isa > > device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices > device io # I/O device > > Why? > What does it mean? Should we include 'DEFAULTS' in our customized 'GENERIC'? > Or those lines are no more mandatory? DEFAULTS will be included automatically by the new config(8), quoting from markm@ "Its an anti-foot-shooting thing. Scott was concerned that far too many people with kernels based on GENERIC before io was made a separate module were being flummoxed by X not running. This is a way to make npx, mem and io default for even those kernels, as long as they run a modern(tm) config(8)." Look for discussion in cvs-src@. -- Massimo.run();