Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

[Wojciech A. Koszek]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:23:53PM +0800, LI Xin wrote:
> Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:

[..]

> >> I always use options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE for my kernel :-)  Maybe we
> >> should add it to DEFAULTS some day...
> > 
> > I did some work in this area, as several system administrators I've met
> > also seem to have problem with kernel configuration recovery. In my case
> > I came with a method of obtaining a configuration of a running kernel
> > via sysctl (kern.conftxt for now) and via config(8) form the kernel file.
> > 
> > Hopefully this work will get more review soon.
> 
> Not sure how useful could it be to expose it via sysctl(8) interface but
> sounds interesting to me.  Have you posted the patch somewhere?

Well, being able to ask about output of:

	sysctl -a | egrep '(LOCK_PROFILING|WITNESS)'

Or any other important options, whose impact isn't directly noticeable
is useful, at least for me; even without mentioning, how useful would be
to have a feature in our build infrastructure, which could warn a user,
that the kernel module which is being compiled separately (e.g: from
ports/) doesn't have LOCK_PROFILING, while the running kernel has this
option included.

-- 
Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek at FreeBSD.org
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/dunstan/