In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> Bruce Evans wrote: >> > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > >> > > Worst case you will have the option to use: >> > > >> > > options NOGEOM >> > > options vinum >> > >> > A NOGEOM option would be as acceptable as a NOFFS option for turning off >> > forcing of the one true file system down everyone's throats. >> >> Part of the problem there is a weakness in config that I've threatened >> to fix on more than one occasion. We do not have a way to have options >> default to on and let people turn the option off. Negative options >> ("options NOFOO") are a poor substitute. In the past, a couple of things >> were unifdefed that might have been better served as being 'default to on' >> options or drivers. > >Hmm. Negative options implemented as "negoptions FOO" would work OK for >this. Options could be defaulted to on by putting them in an included >config file, and then turned off using negoptions.
This could actually decrease the size and complexity of our kernel config files considerably, just think of all the "theoretically-but-not-in-practice" options like INET. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
