GENERIC and DEFAULTS

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:36:46AM +0100, Cristiano Deana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to
> 'DEFAULTS':
> 
> device          isa
> 
> device          mem             # Memory and kernel memory devices 	
> device          io              # I/O device
> 
> Why?
> What does it mean? Should we include 'DEFAULTS' in our customized 'GENERIC'?

It's included by DEFAULT.

> Or those lines are no more mandatory?

The point of a DEFAULTS file is that to contain things that are used
by DEFAULT, including those which are mandatory.

> I think it should be written in 'UPDATING'.

No action is necessary.

Kris
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