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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