nixos: Try to show an helpful message when the user sets config. or options.

Feel free to improve or remove :-)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/modules.nix b/lib/modules.nix
index 8af08522051f..fdee8824493d 100644
--- a/lib/modules.nix
+++ b/lib/modules.nix
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ rec {
     if m ? config || m ? options then
       let badAttrs = removeAttrs m ["imports" "options" "config" "key" "_file"]; in
       if badAttrs != {} then
-        throw "Module `${key}' has an unsupported attribute `${head (attrNames badAttrs)}'."
+        throw "Module `${key}' has an unsupported attribute `${head (attrNames badAttrs)}'. This is caused by assignments to the top-level attributes `config' or `options'."
       else
         { file = m._file or file;
           key = toString m.key or key;