kern/62285: Incorrect comments in GENERIC kernel config
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Mar 6 01:30:19 PST 2004
The following reply was made to PR kern/62285; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Sten Spans <sten at blinkenlights.nl>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/62285: Incorrect comments in GENERIC kernel config
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 01:20:34 -0800
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:56:35PM -0800, Sten Spans wrote:
> The comment in GENERIC talks about numbers for pseudo devices,
> but there are no numbers in the pseudo devices section.
>
> # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
> device random # Entropy device
> device loop # Network loopback
> device ether # Ethernet support
> device sl # Kernel SLIP
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> >Fix:
> Correct the comment to better explain how pseudo devices should be listed
> in the kernel configuration. Perhaps a header would help, aka:
>
> # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
> #device #type #amount
> device random # Entropy device
Actually the comment is just stale..in 5.x these devices are no longer
statically assigned at compile time, as they were in 4.x.
Kris
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