Re: Rename sys/*/conf/DEFAULT to _DEFAULT

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:05:21 -0800
"David O'Brien" <obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi folks,
In the days of modern Unix, many (most?) of us have come to expect and
depend on command-line completion that today's modern shells provide
in order to reduce typing (and inaccurate typing).

Given that premise, the "DEFAULTS" file in sys/*/conf constantly
trips me up as my kernel files are named "DEO". I know others with
kernel configs named with a 'D' that grumbled when command-line
completion was now thwart due to "DEFAULTS".

A very simple solution to this is to rename "DEFAULTS" to "_DEFAULTS".

One of the purposes for DEFAULTS was to semi-hide devices and options
that really aren't optional (unless you really know what you're
doing) or have POLA concerns so they would not be causally removed.
So this name change also puts this file to a different "name space" -
and in fact may better convey "there are no user serviceable parts in
here".

Thoughts?

Hi,

my thoughts are: gratuitous and unnecessary. Renaming _your_ config file
to something else is a better alternative, IMHO. And it has no impact on
others as a side benefit.

--
Alexander Kabaev

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