svn commit: r40117 - in head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook: kernelbuild policies tools

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:

> Author: eadler
> Date: Wed Nov 21 13:57:13 2012
> New Revision: 40117
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40117
>
> Log:
>  Remove a ton of obsolete comments from the "developer's handbook".

This seems to remove the last documentation of manually invoking config(8) 
to build a kernel, which seems worthy of explicit mention, and perhaps 
broader discussion.

I do remember some discussion relating to what level of support should be 
afforded to manually invoking config to build a kernel, with several 
current developers still using it, but it's a bit hard to search for and I 
didn't see anything recent in a quick search.

Do you have a pointer to a discussion on other source wherein the "old" 
way of building a kernel is explicitly contraindicated?

Thanks,

Ben