Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:22:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Integration of Net/OpenBSD code (was Re: your mail) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008200017430.15719-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200008200606.AAA30636@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <200008200303.NAA06295@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Darren Reed writes: > : code that is hard to just "copy". The time it is taking for cardbus > : to arrive in FreeBSD, when it is already available in NetBSD, is a > : good example of this. (This is/was Warner Losh's baby, or am I > : confused ?) I'm *really* disappointed that FreeBSD doesn't (yet ?) > : support cardbus in 4.x (-current?) :-( > > It has become hard to just copy code from one BSD to another. It As someone who spends a fair amount of time doing just this, I have to say that the *BSD's have deviated significantly in many respects. So much so that very conscious major design choices have to be made to facilitate any kind of code sharing. I used to feel that this was a terrible thing. Now I'm not so sure. I believe that in places where it really might be important to share ways can be found to do s. In cases where one developer is common to all *BSDs, that developer will make the effort if appropriate and possible. In the case where you have major kernel APIs, it's harder, and given the intransigence of people in *all* camps, trying to bridge that is very hard- so much so that I think now that such differences should be *encouraged* instead. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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