Subject: Re: proposed mods to config(8) and the kernel build process
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/11/2000 21:00:59
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:00:31AM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:49:30AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > Such a feature is a good thing unless the goal is to ultimately eliminate the
> > config file and replace it with .conf settings or something similar (as the
> > FreeBSD loader is).
> 
[...]
> Can someone point me in the direction of docco or what part of FreeBSD
> does this? If we do decide we like the functionality and their scheme
> is reasonable, we probably should look at using it.

You're talking about two completely different things here. One is
to include the config file in an array (optionally, I hope) for reference,
and the other is about reading in a file early on in the boot process
to get settings.

- Frank