FreeBSD 7 trivial problems / notes
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 10 16:43:41 PST 2007
On 2007-12-10 10:19, Reko Turja <reko.turja at liukuma.net> wrote:
>>> > => SCTP depends on IPv6
>>> >
>>> > This is clearly documented in NOTES. I don't think it should
>>> > count as a surprising fact.
>>>
>>> I know it's in the NOTES - I've added it when it bit me since I
>>> didn't read the notes. Maybe I'll remove it.
>>
>> If it bit you, an experienced FreeBSD developer, it can bite others
>> too. Let's work with re@ to get it in the release notes, if it's not
>> already there (instead of deleting it from the list) :-)
>>
>> My last CVSup is from Wed Dec 05 19:32:59 2007 +0000 (right before I
>> started preparing for Friday's FreeBSD talk at a nearby university),
>> so I'll CVSup again tomorrow morning, and check how we can fit this
>> into the release notes in a nice, non-intrusive but still useful
>> manner.
>
> How about making a comment about the requirement in the GENERIC
> config file, in a manner used for device 'ed' or device 'sbp' for example?
>
> ...
> options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols
> options SCTP # Stream Control Transmission
> Protocol
> # SCTP requires 'options
> INET6'
> options FFS
> ...
>
> Or are the comments about in requirement at 'GENERIC' phased out?
Does the following look ok?
%%%
diff -r eae64e5226db sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
--- a/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC Mon Dec 10 12:03:23 2007 +0000
+++ b/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC Tue Dec 11 02:41:27 2007 +0200
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thr
options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption
options INET # InterNETworking
options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols
-options SCTP # Stream Control Transmission Protocol
+options SCTP # Stream Control Transmission Protocol (requires INET6)
options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support
options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists
%%%
It's simple enough, and we already have a few lines which are a bit
`longish' in GENERIC.
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