kern/62285: Incorrect comments in GENERIC kernel config

Sten Spans sten at blinkenlights.nl
Sat Mar 6 14:10:20 PST 2004


The following reply was made to PR kern/62285; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sten Spans <sten at blinkenlights.nl>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/62285: Incorrect comments in GENERIC kernel config
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 23:03:55 +0100 (CET)

 On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
 
 > 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.
 
 Even more reason for clarifying it :)
 
 -- 
 Sten Spans
 
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