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From: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Incorrect comments in GENERIC kernel config
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>Number:         62285
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Incorrect comments in GENERIC kernel config
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 02 14:00:35 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:    Sun Jul 18 09:04:23 GMT 2004
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jul 18 09:04:23 GMT 2004
>Originator:     Sten Spans
>Release:        5.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD deepthought.blinkenlights.nl 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 11 01:06:36 GMT 2004     root@mithlond.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  alpha                                                                    
>Description:
The comment in GENERIC talks about numbers for pseudo devices,
but there are no numbers in the pseudo devices section.

# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
device          random          # Entropy device
device          loop            # Network loopback
device          ether           # Ethernet support
device          sl              # Kernel SLIP

>How-To-Repeat:
      
>Fix:
Correct the comment to better explain how pseudo devices should be listed
in the kernel configuration. Perhaps a header would help, aka:

# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
#device         #type     #amount
device          random             # Entropy device

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/62285: Incorrect comments in GENERIC kernel config
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 01:20:34 -0800

 On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:56:35PM -0800, Sten Spans wrote:
 
 > The comment in GENERIC talks about numbers for pseudo devices,
 > but there are no numbers in the pseudo devices section.
 > 
 > # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
 > device          random          # Entropy device
 > device          loop            # Network loopback
 > device          ether           # Ethernet support
 > device          sl              # Kernel SLIP
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >       
 > >Fix:
 > Correct the comment to better explain how pseudo devices should be listed
 > in the kernel configuration. Perhaps a header would help, aka:
 > 
 > # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
 > #device         #type     #amount
 > device          random             # Entropy device
 
 Actually the comment is just stale..in 5.x these devices are no longer
 statically assigned at compile time, as they were in 4.x.
 
 Kris

From: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/62285: Incorrect comments in GENERIC kernel config
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 23:03:55 +0100 (CET)

 On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
 
 > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:56:35PM -0800, Sten Spans wrote:
 >
 > > The comment in GENERIC talks about numbers for pseudo devices,
 > > but there are no numbers in the pseudo devices section.
 > >
 > > # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
 > > device          random          # Entropy device
 > > device          loop            # Network loopback
 > > device          ether           # Ethernet support
 > > device          sl              # Kernel SLIP
 > >
 > > >How-To-Repeat:
 > >
 > > >Fix:
 > > Correct the comment to better explain how pseudo devices should be listed
 > > in the kernel configuration. Perhaps a header would help, aka:
 > >
 > > # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
 > > #device         #type     #amount
 > > device          random             # Entropy device
 >
 > Actually the comment is just stale..in 5.x these devices are no longer
 > statically assigned at compile time, as they were in 4.x.
 
 Even more reason for clarifying it :)
 
 -- 
 Sten Spans
 
 "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
 Leonard Cohen - Anthem
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: maxim 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jul 18 09:03:46 GMT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed in -CURRENT, thanks for the pointer. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62285 
>Unformatted:
