svn commit: r184194 - in head/sys: conf mips/conf

[Warner Losh]

From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r184194 - in head/sys: conf mips/conf
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:53:13 +0100

> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > ...
> > They were enabled by default and they were non-optional by
> > virtue of being standard. My change *only* made them
> > optional so that people can opt-out (by using nooption,
> > rather than editing sys/conf/files.mips). I didn't change
> > the status-quo WRT having them compiled-in by default, and
> > to achieve that, I added them to DEFAULTS.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation, I clearly misunderstood what was going on.

My conern was that this was the wrong mechanism, it wasn't discssed
and lots of folks dislike it.

Warner