option PROCDESC is gone?

Sergey Kandaurov pluknet at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 7 15:02:49 UTC 2014


On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:33:56AM -0800, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> /usr/src/UPDATING:
> 
> 20130905:
>         The PROCDESC kernel option is now part of the GENERIC kernel
>         configuration and is required for the rwhod(8) to work.
>         If you are using custom kernel configuration, you should include
>         'options PROCDESC'.
> 
> There is no later entry advising not to use it,
> yet it seems to have gone from all generic kernels.

This options was removed in HEAD. This probably should be noted.

Index: UPDATING
===================================================================
--- UPDATING	(revision 261596)
+++ UPDATING	(working copy)
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@
 	big-endian integer in accordance with RFC 4402.
 	__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 1100004.
 
+20131130:
+	The PROCDESC kernel option has been removed. Its
+	functionality now turned on by default.
+
 20131108:
 	The WITHOUT_ATF build knob has been removed and its functionality
 	has been subsumed into the more generic WITHOUT_TESTS.  If you were

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