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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/modules.nix | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/modules.nix b/lib/modules.nix index 2c827a01e01bb..23dbe962491ba 100644 --- a/lib/modules.nix +++ b/lib/modules.nix @@ -73,19 +73,20 @@ rec { check ? true }: let - # This internal module declare internal options under the `_module' - # attribute. These options are fragile, as they are used by the - # module system to change the interpretation of modules. + # An internal module that's always added, defining special options which + # change the behavior of the module evaluation itself. This is under a + # `_`-prefixed namespace in order to prevent name clashes with + # user-defined options internalModule = rec { # FIXME: Using ./modules.nix directly breaks the doc for some reason _file = "lib/modules.nix"; key = _file; - # These options are set to be internal only for prefix != [], aka it's - # a submodule evaluation. This way their docs are displayed only once - # as a top-level NixOS option, but will be hidden for all submodules, - # even though they are available there too + # Most of these options are set to be internal only for prefix != [], + # aka it's a submodule evaluation. This way their docs are displayed + # only once as a top-level NixOS option, but will be hidden for all + # submodules, even though they are available there too options = { _module.args = mkOption { # Because things like `mkIf` are entirely useless for @@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ rec { _module.check = mkOption { type = types.bool; - internal = prefix != []; + internal = true; default = check; description = '' Whether to check whether all option definitions have matching |