Rename sys/*/conf/DEFAULT to _DEFAULT

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:05:21 -0800
"David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> In the days of modern Unix, many (most?) of us have come to expect and
> depend on command-line completion that today's modern shells provide
> in order to reduce typing (and inaccurate typing).
> 
> Given that premise, the "DEFAULTS" file in sys/*/conf constantly
> trips me up as my kernel files are named "DEO".  I know others with
> kernel configs named with a 'D' that grumbled when command-line
> completion was now thwart due to "DEFAULTS".
> 
> A very simple solution to this is to rename "DEFAULTS" to "_DEFAULTS".
> 
> One of the purposes for DEFAULTS was to semi-hide devices and options
> that really aren't optional (unless you really know what you're
> doing) or have POLA concerns so they would not be causally removed.
> So this name change also puts this file to a different "name space" -
> and in fact may better convey "there are no user serviceable parts in
> here".
> 
> Thoughts?

Hi,

my thoughts are: gratuitous and unnecessary. Renaming _your_ config file
to something else is a better alternative, IMHO. And it has no impact on
others as a side benefit. 

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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