Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:20:32 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: kernel device dependency and sys/conf/files format Message-ID: <XFMail.20030407162032.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10304051230240.10987-100000@speicher.org>
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On 05-Apr-2003 Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: > I'm revisiting the project to determine device dependency in the kernel, > and I've run into a situation where net/if.c requires the ether device, > but no device appears to require net/if.c directly. > > sys/conf/files says that net/if.c is "standard", but I have no idea what > that means in terms of building a kernel. An entry (filename) in that > file can be listed as standard, mandatory, optional, or count. Mandatory > and optional seem pretty self-explanatory, but can anyone explain the > meaning of standard and count? > > I assume that net/if.c can be removed from the build or else it would be > listed as mandatory, but it does appear that an awful lot of things > implicitly depend on it. Eh? I am not aware of any 'mandatory' entries in sys/conf/files*. This is what I get: > grep mandatory /sys/conf/files* > Basically, 'standard' is how you spell 'mandatory' in sys/conf/files*. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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