[PATCH] Witness breakage

Brian Somers brian at Awfulhak.org
Thu Jul 8 16:27:18 PDT 2004


On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:14:46 -0700, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:30:37PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:18:03 -0700 (PDT), Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > 
> > > > There are no BOOTP or NFS related options.  See below
> > > 
> > > Therein lies the rub -- the removal of the BOOTP kernel option by brian@
> > > makes NFSCLIENT required, since the bootp client is tightly bound to the
> > > NFS client.  It should be backed out and bootp properly disentangled if
> > > its going to be mandatory. I've added him to the thread.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm, without options NFSCLIENT, you should be able to load nfsclient.ko then
> > set bootp="YES" and bootp.nfsboot="YES"....
> 
> You first need to be able to build a kernel. ;-)

Yes, it seems my second test kernel which had options NFSCLIENT commented
out had it included a second time further down in the file - not commented
out.  So I got that bit wrong too.  *sigh*... let me dust off that
deluxe dual-pointed hat.

> Thanks for backing out the earlier commit. "make buildkernel"
> is again functioning.

Hey, well at least I got that right :*}

> -- 
> Steve

-- 
Brian <brian at Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
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