Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

From: Aristedes Maniatis (ari_at_ish.com.au)
Date: 11/03/05

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    On 03/11/2005, at 9:09 AM, David Wolfskill wrote:

    > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:39:30PM -0500, Ken Menzel wrote:
    >> ...
    >> If I include GENERIC can I comment out the following?
    >> #cpu I486_CPU
    >> #cpu I586_CPU
    >
    > Well, it's your (copy of) the file; I suppose you can do whatever you
    > want to with it. :-)

    Ken's original point is a valid one. The way we have created config
    files in the past was to duplicate GENERIC and edit the copy. Recent
    postings have indicated that the new methodology will be to 'include'
    GENERIC and override certain features using the nodevice tag. This
    sounds like a great idea to avoid using diff to figure out what
    crucial features changed from one release to another.

    But it will only be useful if we don't have to edit the GENERIC file.
    Otherwise we are back where we started, editing a file which is
    overwritten by cvsup.

    Ari Maniatis

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