On Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 4:50 AM Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> -------- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > > > There is very little difference between options and devices in kernel > > configuration files, but for what it's worth, filemon is a device, not > > an option. > > Apart from the internals of config(8) and it's input data, is there > any actual difference left ? > DEV_FOO is defined instead of FOO in the opt_*.h file is the only difference since otherwise both are added. I think that config's grammer only lets option foo=bar work, while device foo=bar does not. For options like filemon that conditionally include whole files without ifdefs elsewhere, there's no difference. Warner -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > >
