From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 5 13:51:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11337 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:51:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11246 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id WAA23088 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 22:50:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id WAA18669; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 22:38:29 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 22:38:29 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199806052038.WAA18669@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: "swaps on generic" - what a name... X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.current To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > What's your opinion on the above clause in kernel config file? I > know it's the holy tradition which stands behind it, but I find it > totally misleading in current state of affairs. It is. And IMHO, our GENERIC kernel should also use it instead of specifying an explicit root device. > Could it be expressed better in terms of normal kernel option, say > "options ASK_ROOT"? ASK_ROOT should be possible with all kernels, regardless of whether they are using a generic root device (i.e., they always have to adjust the root device to the boot device) or not. There's no reason i could see to prevent explicitly specified kernels to allow for a -a option. So it's probably best as config kernel generic to say there's no predefined root device. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message