Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:45:00 -0300 (BRT)
From:      "Mario Lobo" <mlobo@digiart.art.br>
To:        "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        Henri Hennebert <hlh@restart.be>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Mario Lobo <mlobo@digiart.art.br>
Subject:   Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL (recap)
Message-ID:  <22812.189.23.180.20.1254149100.squirrel@squirrel.sv4.hmnoc.net>
In-Reply-To: <19136.43017.530028.824860@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <200909271301.53931.mlobo@digiart.art.br> <19136.43017.530028.824860@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>
> Mario Lobo writes:
>
>>  > Maybe it is due to /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS
>>  >
>>  > which contains:
>>  >
>>  > options 	GEOM_PART_BSD
>>  > options 	GEOM_PART_EBR
>>  > options 	GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT
>>  > options 	GEOM_PART_MBR
>>  >
>>  > Henri
>>
>>  Not the case. I saw those and commented them out.
>
> 	It is my understanding that if a "defaults" file exists for any
> task, it is A Very Bad Idea(tm) to change it.  There should be a
> file which contains over-ride settings; change things there instead.
> In the case of kernel configuration, everything can be configured
> from /sys/<arch>/conf/<KERNELNAME>.
>
>
> 					Robert Huff
>

In my case, even if i took those out of /sys/amd64/conf/MYKERNEL, they
would still be compiled in because of the DEFAULTS file, so I had no
option (that I know of) left but to comment them out IN the DEFAULTS file
itself.

Mario Lobo




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?22812.189.23.180.20.1254149100.squirrel>