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

[Nate Lawson]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:52:24PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > Please don't recommend they put the hint in device.hints.  That file is
> > regenerated as part of the upgrade process.  It should go in
> > /boot/loader.conf, which is already cross-referenced by the manpage.
>
> I don't follow -- /boot/device.hints isn't regenerated.  One must have
> one, and upgrading from an older FreeBSD version to 5.x requires you to
> create one.

I meant the step in UPGRADING that says "cp GENERIC.hints
/boot/device.hints".  If people follow that, you lose local changes to
hints.  The other reason to recommend they put the value in loader.conf is
that it is empty by default, thus making it easy to say "just paste the
contents of your loader.conf" and not worry about diffing pages of
variables from GENERIC.hints against device.hints to see which they
changed or added.

-Nate