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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