Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL (recap)

Mario Lobo mlobo at digiart.art.br
Mon Sep 28 14:45:03 UTC 2009


>
> Mario Lobo writes:
>
>>  > Maybe it is due to /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS
>>  >
>>  > which contains:
>>  >
>>  > options 	GEOM_PART_BSD
>>  > options 	GEOM_PART_EBR
>>  > options 	GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT
>>  > options 	GEOM_PART_MBR
>>  >
>>  > Henri
>>
>>  Not the case. I saw those and commented them out.
>
> 	It is my understanding that if a "defaults" file exists for any
> task, it is A Very Bad Idea(tm) to change it.  There should be a
> file which contains over-ride settings; change things there instead.
> In the case of kernel configuration, everything can be configured
> from /sys/<arch>/conf/<KERNELNAME>.
>
>
> 					Robert Huff
>

In my case, even if i took those out of /sys/amd64/conf/MYKERNEL, they
would still be compiled in because of the DEFAULTS file, so I had no
option (that I know of) left but to comment them out IN the DEFAULTS file
itself.

Mario Lobo



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