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Date:      Tue, 01 Jan 2002 10:22:41 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 trap.c 
Message-ID:  <68955.1009876961@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:39:11 PST." <XFMail.011231123911.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <XFMail.011231123911.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>
>On 30-Dec-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> phk         2001/12/30 11:43:59 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/i386/i386        trap.c 
>>   Log:
>>   GC an alternate trap_pfault() which has rotted away behind an "#ifdef
>> notyet"
>>   since 21-Mar-95 .
>
>I thought we wanted to switch to using it as it simplifies some of the kernel
>fault handling but just had a few unsafe places in the kernel to fix?

Could be.

People have had 6 years to do so and not cared to.

If somebody gets all reved up about it now, resurrecting the dead code
from CVS will not delay them more than a few seconds.

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