cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 acpi.4

[juli mallett]

* Tim Kientzle <kientzle at acm.org> [ Date: 2004-02-17 ]
	[ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 acpi.4 ]
> Nate Lawson wrote:
> >On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >
> >>Seems like it might be time to evaluate ways to separate
> >>the "default hints" from the "custom hints".
> >>  /boot/defaults/device.hints, anyone?
> >
> >This is not helpful since my whole point was not to create more places
> >where user overrides go.  loader.conf is blank by default, therefore it's
> >an easy place to put overrides for both hints and tunables.  Going and
> >creating two separate files that are blank by default only increases
> >confusion.
> 
> Okay, so what exactly is the difference between
>    /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> and
>    /boot/device.hints
> ?
> 
> If device hints can go in loader.conf with impunity,
> and we already have defaults/loader.conf (which people
> know to leave alone) and the regular loader.conf
> (for local customizations), then it's not clear
> why device.hints exists at all.

It's nice to have the hints tied to the kernel not the loader, for
example, for compiling hints in statically.
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