From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 19 7:11:18 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5063514E62; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 07:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA07621; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 02:11:04 +1100 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 02:10:46 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > This is a bug in the drivers. Don't hide it by breaking LINT. > > I don't know many people that would rather have LINT not compile > than compile but without an old, soon-to-be-really-deprecated > driver. It won't be really-deprecated until 5.0 or later. > > The drivers used to be sort link-level compatible. Only wcd and acd > > were very incompatible (because there are 2 files (mis)named atapi-cd.c; > > the ata one should be named acd.c and the wcd one should be named wcd.c > > like an old version of it was). This problem used to be hidden by > > breaking LINT in a different way (commenting out wcd0). > > Who is going to "fix" the drivers themselves? Things would have to > be renamed... And at some point, wasn't LINT a functional kernel? Driver maintainers should fix their drivers. No, LINT was never functional, and was never supposed to be functional. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message