From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 00:44:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA29355 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:44:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from underdog.maxie.com (maxie.com [199.250.231.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA29349 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:44:23 -0800 (PST) From: max@maxie.com Received: from sonic.maxie.com (sonic.maxie.com [199.250.231.29]) by underdog.maxie.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id DAA01900; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 03:44:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 03:44:15 -0500 Message-Id: <199601190844.DAA01900@underdog.maxie.com> X-Sender: max@mail.maxie.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Mike Pritchard" Subject: Re: npx0 device Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 02:25 AM 1/19/96 -0600, you wrote: >I seem to recall that some documentation out there tells new >users to start with GENERIC and add/remove lines from that file >as needed. GENERIC probably needs a line in it that warns the npx0 is >not optional. That, or a clearer explaination to refer to LINT for what each config line means. I seem to remember one of the install documents was not real clear on that, but I don't remember which one. Actually, is there any real reason why GENERIC can't have comments about what ALL of the lines mean, instead of them just appearing in the LINT file? James Robertson