Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES

From: Alexey Zelkin (phantom_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 02:24:29 +0300
To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>

    hi,

    On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:05:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
    > Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org> writes:
    > > This weekend I have got some spare time (due to illness) and in
    > > order to get some rest from current tasks decided to pass thru old
    > > TODO file. Most interesting task got my attention was old item
    > > related to XMLification NOTES.
    > >
    > > Important advantage of this step (IMO) is to provide possibility to
    > > check dependency/conflicts of kernel configuration file to end users.
    > > [...]
    >
    > NOTES is not intended as a list of supported device and options. We
    > have src/sys/conf/files* and src/sys/conf/options* for that.

    Strange. IMO LINT was existed for exactly this reason (plus meta-kernel
    configuration file used for compiling checks). LINT and NOTES aren't
    so different, so you can't say that purpose of NOTES is different than
    LINT.

    > Dependencies between loadable drivers and subsystems are documented in
    > the source code (MODULE_DEPEND), though that information is not used
    > at compile time. Dependencies that involve non-loadable drivers and
    > subsystems are not documented anywhere (except sometimes in manual
    > pages). It would not be hard to modify config(8) to obtain that
    > information from e.g. src/sys/conf/depend*. I might even come up with
    > a patch if I'm bored.

    I am not asking for patches, but if you would provide me general
    description how to realize that CPU_I386 conflicts with SMP and
    ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES depends on SMP (using your way) I would be happy and
    re-think my approach. 

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