I always wondered why we called them "defopts" - sounds an awful lot
like "default options", and it confused me for a while, too.  It might
have been nicer to have called them "hdropts" - but of course it's way
too late to change now.  :)

On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:32:22 +0200 (MEST) 
>  Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> wrote:
> 
>  > I'm just catching up source-changes from a couple of days, and I see a lot
>  > of former kernel options now being defopt'ed: NFSSERVER, COMPAT_LINUX,
>  > COMPAT_FREEBSD, COMPAT_SUNOS, ... What's the idea behind this? 
>  > 
>  > Wasn't the intention of these options to remove unnecessary code from the
>  > kernel if one didn't need the funcionality? Is it just me who is under the
>  > impression that this optionality is gone now - or am I just missing
>  > something obvious? 
> 
> They're still options... but headers are now generated for them so that
> proper dependencies can be generated on them.
> 
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