Subject: Re: no dev at attachment [was: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/config]
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/24/2005 23:40:16
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:35:40PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> >	src/usr.bin/config: sem.c
> >
> >Log Message:
> >Implement the long overdue syntax "no <dev> at <attachment>".  We can't
> >pretend anymore we don't have it.
> >
> >This is the result of 7 hours of work on the train journey forth and
> >back to the family reunion for the birthday of my cousin Mickael, whom
> >I thank for living just far away enough.
>=20
> This is very very cool!
>=20
> So are there any things left that we can not disable again in a kernel=20
> config file? If not, we can at least start rewriting the various=20
> GENERIC/INSTALL variants to be based on a big one, and remove stuff ("no=
=20
> FOO at BAR", "no options BAZ", ...).

We can rewrite them, yes.

I did it for my laptop's kernel and it's tedious without any tools to
help with the task.  We would still have to provide a lot of kernels
with all the disabled devices (and maintain them), but I guess that
might be easier to script that part now.  We'll see.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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