LINT file?

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Tue Mar 2 08:35:58 PST 2004


> 
> > 
> > Anyway, my 4.9 LINT has comments.
> > I certainly hope to see them when I get to 5.xxx.
> > 
> 
> You will see them, as Kris noted already, in NOTES. If you want to see
> them in LINT, do something like
> 
> $ cd /usr/src/sys && cat conf/NOTES i386/conf/NOTES > i386/conf/LINT
> 
> :)
> 
>...
> 
> I feel like that this separation of a file needed for developers
> (LINT) and file readable by others (NOTES) nevertheless has some
> sense. For example, one doesn't have to make sure that NOTES is in any
> way compilable, it's `lines that can be cut/pasted into kernel' config
> file. That way, one may be able to enumerate more options, even they
> are mutually exclsive. That's just one reason that came to my
> mind. The reason for splitting notes into conf/NOTES and
> <arch>/conf/NOTES seems more obvious: common devices go into the
> former, specific - into the latter.

Well if they are all there and well kept up, it could be OK.  I hope 
near the top of the LINT file there will be a comment referring us to 
that NOTES file then.   It will be helpful to keep down the high blood 
preassure of those of us in a panic.

////jerry

> 
> HTH.
> 
> 
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