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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:38:39 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: Driver mega-commit ahead.
Message-ID:  <20030302203839.GB546@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <10086.1046636791@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20030302202015.GA546@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <10086.1046636791@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030302202015.GA546@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar writes
> :
> >On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:14:13PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> 
> >> I plan to commit
> >> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/cdevsw.patch
> >> one of the first days of the week.
> >> 
> >> Basically, it changes cdevsw initializations to use C99 sparse
> >> format, and thereby eliminates 859 lines of redundant defaultvalue
> >> initializations.
<snip>
> This particular sweep gives os much better cross-branch source
> portability and therefore I think it is exactly the kind of thing
> we want before the RELENG_5 branch.

I thought this was just syntactic sugaring and that doing it now
reduces diffs between 5-stable and 6-current (by increasing diffs
between 5-release and 5-stable) but otherwise does not change a bit? 

Do I misunderstand the effect of the patch?

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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