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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:07:40 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>,
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Subject: Re: Bruce vandalism again
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On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 11:21:46AM +1030, Mike Smith wrote:
>> OK, so here's a thought experiment:
>>
>> Suppose somebody suddenly showed up with a giant patch file that:
>>
>>  (a) Got rid of all uses of __P() in the kernel (ie, unwrapped them
>>      so that all function declarations used ANSI protptypes)
>
> This wouldn't be much worse than the $Id$->$FreeBSD$->$Id$ change.  I
> think we could survive it OK.
>
>>  (b) Changed every function definition to use ANSI prototypes as well
>
> This would be on the order of the trailing whitespace changes; you'd
> want a committer that was prepared to die for the cause.

This doesn't have to happen all at once.  Somebody mentioned "a file
at a time", which I think is reasonable.

>> Would it get committed?
>
> I suspect that you would be facing some fairly concerted opposition
> from people that don't like change.

What, opposition?  In this forum?

Greg