Re: kern/41668: MONOLITHIC should probably also be included in HEAD builds

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41668; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/41668: MONOLITHIC should probably also be included in
        HEAD builds
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:24:33 +0000

 On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:55:01AM +0000, Matthew Mondor wrote:
  >  However, when I filed the PR I was thinking of end users who I
  >  occasionally meet on IRC, needing to try a -current kernel and finding
  >  it non-trivial.  Of course, in an ideal world, they wouldn't have to,
  >  but it does happen.
  >  
  >  They end up either having to mess with GENERIC and modules from a daily
  >  build or having to read tracking-current documentation and build their
  >  own kernel from source (also realizing that they need MONOLITHIC and
  >  not GENERIC for the documented procedure to work properly), when they
  >  could simply download a single kernel image to test.  Even for
  >  developers, an end user being able to confirm if a kernel problem
  >  subsists or not on HEAD is useful.
 
 Yes, this.
 
 ad, don't you think the fact that several people have asked for this
 for a number of good reasons is an indication that it should be there,
 at least for HEAD builds? Whether it's kept on release branches is an
 entirely different issue.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost