Subject: defopt'ing before 1.4
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Erik Bertelsen <erik@mediator.uni-c.dk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/19/1999 08:13:53
Is it the intention to defopt most/all common kernel
configuration options before releasing 1.4 ?

At least I think that options that are "almost always"
used in a kernel should be defopt'ed. This has largely
already happened with the MI options, but some MD options
still need to defopt'ed.

A criterion might be that for each port, at least one
"useful" configuration should cause no diagnostics from
config -v.

Doing this can be considered at kind of clean-up that should
be doable without problems, as it does not change any kernel
interfaces or features.

E.g. on my pmax I get
 config -v SOCKDEV 
SOCKDEV:7: warning: undeclared option `MIPS1' added to IDENT
SOCKDEV:27: warning: undeclared option `HZ=256' added to IDENT


on my mac68k I get (some MI, some MD):

 config -v Q610 
../../../../arch/mac68k/conf/std.mac68k:8: warning: undeclared option `HZ' added to IDENT
Q610:11: warning: undeclared option `NKMEMCLUSTERS' added to IDENT
Q610:12: warning: undeclared option `NMBCLUSTERS' added to IDENT
Q610:32: warning: undeclared option `M68040' added to IDENT
Q610:33: warning: undeclared option `FPSP' added to IDENT


What's the opinions ?

- Erik Bertelsen