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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:49:03 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r345680 - head/sys/conf
Message-ID:  <20190329094903.GA12522@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190329164644.X957@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201903290400.x2T40kp7013212@repo.freebsd.org> <CAF5D833-B3C3-4AD6-9B77-0363C56E93E9@panasas.com> <20190329164644.X957@besplex.bde.org>

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 05:40:05PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> ...
> >> -options 	BOOT_TAG=\"---<<BOOT>>---\"
> >> +options 	BOOT_TAG=\"\"
> 
> Useful variations are not always easy to invent.  I usually just add 1 for
> numeric values.  This example is useful.  It kills the boot tag.  It gives
> an empty tag, and the kernel does extra work to avoid printing a newline
> after an empty tag.

That's a nice idea, thanks Bruce.  I always had to revert commits that had
added this stupid boot tag; if empty tag does not imply a newline, then it
makes things much easier.

./danfe

P.S.  Boot tag of a healthy human is "Copyright (c) 1992-2018 The FreeBSD
Project".



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