Rename sys/*/conf/DEFAULT to _DEFAULT
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 8 09:07:28 PST 2007
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 02:42:52 pm Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> On Nov 7, 2007, at 5:49 AM, David O'Brien wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:18:12AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >> On one level this seems reasonable, on another, I don't see the point
> >> since on ever platform kernels beginning with G or N have this
> >> issue and
> >> on i386 you add at least S and P to that list.
> >
> > If not, why not make it easier for folks with a kernel file named
> > "DE*"?
>
> What about this:
>
> We move src/sys/${ARCH}/conf/DEFAULTS to src/sys/conf/DEFAULTS.${arch}
> and we can even add a generic src/sys/conf/DEFAULTS if there's a reason
> for it.
>
> That seems to be a much better solution than renaming a file so that it
> stops being in the way for some, only to have it become in the way for
> others. That's just pointless...
Agreed. The tab completion argument is a bit weak, but this is probably a
good idea. All the other files config(8) reads reside in sys/conf, so that
is probably a better place.
--
John Baldwin
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