cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org> (from Tue, 28 Nov  
2006 19:09:13 +0200):

> On 2006-11-23 15:14, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
>> Quoting Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org>
>> (from Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:17:01 +0000 (UTC)):
>>> keramida    2006-11-22 16:17:01 UTC
>>>
>>>  FreeBSD doc repository
>>>
>>>  Modified files:
>>>    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml
>>>  Log:
>>>  Various fixes to the "config and tuning" section of the Handbook.
>>>
>>>    * Reword the paragraph before a set of tunables for Linux, as
>>>      it wasa bit confusing.
>>
>> The compat.linux.osrelease one needs to be removed. glibc behaves
>> differently based upon the value of it. It may refuse to do anything
>> if it doesn't understand the value. Changing the value of osrelease is
>> only advised in experimental situations (like in
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel) and may result even in kernel
>> panics.
>
> Thanks!  Should I just remove the reference to compat.linux.osrelease,
> or do we need to make other wider changes to the text around the area.
>
> It currently reads:
[snip]

It's a chapter/paragraph about sysctl, not about linux. So remove the  
compat.linux stuff here and you are safe. Feel free to use the  
hw.snd.maxautovchans sysctl as an example (there are different default  
values in -current than in some releases, I don't remember if I MFCed  
the new default value to 6.2).

Adding an explanation to the linux chapter would be nice (except for  
the panic part, this is specific to -current if you already have some  
linux programs running and then change the osrelease). If you want to  
change the linux chapter I try to come up with other missing facts for  
this chapter (I have to read it when I get a little bit of time).

Bye,
Alexander.

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