Daemon Dancing in the Dark

Kernal Config notes

As was just pointed on on the freebsd-questions list, in FreeBSD 5.x, the LINT configuration file found in /usr/src/sys/(arch)/conf file no longer contains comments on all the options. As you may recall, the LINT file contains all the options you can put into your own custom kernal configuration file. It is not a buildable configuration file, though, just a complete list.

In earlier versions of FreeBSD, it also contained short comments that documented the options. However, in 5.x, there is now a separate file that does this. It is called NOTES. I'm not sure why they did these, except that it is probably easier to document something when not forced to use makefile style comments.

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