svn commit: r345680 - head/sys/conf

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: <owner-src-committers at freebsd.org> on behalf of Kyle Evans <kevans at FreeBSD.org>
> Date: 2019-03-28, Thursday at 21:00
> To: <src-committers at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head at freebsd.org>
> Subject: svn commit: r345680 - head/sys/conf
> 
> > Author: kevans
> > Date: Fri Mar 29 04:00:46 2019
> > New Revision: 345680
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345680
> > 
> > Log:
> >   NOTES: Use non-default value for BOOT_TAG
> 
> Why?
> 
> (I was on IRC when jhb debugged this, but I didn't quite get it; and of course lots of us *weren't* on IRC at the time.)

Yes, please, why is this beeing changed, do I need to revise my .sh that
was hunting for the old string to use what now?  Or do I need to now
override this in my KERNCONF files?

I think changing this in stable/12 is a POLA issue.

> Thanks,
> 
> Ravi (rpokala@)
> 
> >   Reported by:	jhb
> >   MFC after:	1 week (except non-empty value in stable/11)

Why is 11 being treated special, or is it that it does not implement
BOOT_TAG at all?

Does this deserve a RELNOTES Y, or UPDATING entry?

> > Modified:
> >   head/sys/conf/NOTES
> > 
> > Modified: head/sys/conf/NOTES
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- head/sys/conf/NOTES	Fri Mar 29 03:25:20 2019	(r345679)
> > +++ head/sys/conf/NOTES	Fri Mar 29 04:00:46 2019	(r345680)
> > @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ options 	BOOTHOWTO=RB_MULTIPLE
> >  #
> >  # Default boot tag; may use 'kern.boot_tag' loader tunable to override.  The
> >  # current boot's tag is also exposed via the 'kern.boot_tag' sysctl.
> > -options 	BOOT_TAG=\"---<<BOOT>>---\"
> > +options 	BOOT_TAG=\"\"
> >  # Maximum boot tag size the kernel's static buffer should accomodate.  Maximum
> >  # size for both BOOT_TAG and the assocated tunable.
> >  options 	BOOT_TAG_SZ=32
> 
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> 

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org