svn commit: r40117 - in head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook: kernelbuild policies tools

[Warner Losh]

On Nov 21, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:

> On 21 November 2012 13:14, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at mit.edu> wrote:
>> This seems to remove the last documentation of manually invoking config(8)
>> to build a kernel, which seems worthy of explicit mention, and perhaps
>> broader discussion.
> 
> This should probably be documented in config(1) or some other "how the
> build process works" document.  So far as I could tell, the old method
> should be considered an implementation detail, not an alternative.
> That said I agree this probably deserves some broader consideration,
> so perhaps doc@ is the best place to discuss? Or would a developer
> focussed ML like hackers@ be better?

I don't see why it can't just stay in the handbook...  It is widely used, and often developers use it quite heavily.  It is more than just an implementation "detail", since it would be extremely hard to swap anything else in right now.

Warner