Aligning GENERIC with NOTES?

[Quincey Koziol]

Hi Dag-Erling,

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> Quincey Koziol <koziol at ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:
> >     I've been running FreeBSD for many years without contributing much other
> > than bug reports and I'd like to help a bit.  I'd like to make the contents
> > of the GENERIC configuration file (for 5-CURRENT) more similar to the contents
> > of the NOTES files, in order to ease creating custom kernel configurations.
> 
> Don't.  NOTES and GENERIC have very specific and very different
> purposes.  NOTES is designed to maximize coverage, while GENERIC is
> designed to work on as many different systems as possible.
    I don't want to change the contents of GENERIC.  I wanted to change the
_order_ of the items in GENERIC to be closer to the order of the items in the
NOTES files.  This would make creating custom kernel configs easier (for me
anyway :-).

    Quincey