Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:48:25 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, bp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Remove non-FreeBSD code from fs's Message-ID: <20011105134825.B1114@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011105121004.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:10:04PM -0800 References: <XFMail.011105121004.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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>Would there be any objection to removing all the non-FreeBSD code (such as the >#ifdef NetBSD stuff) from hpfs, smbfs, nwfs, and the like? We have already >drastically broken compatibility with other BSD's by replacing simple locks >with mutexes and the KSE changes. When I talked to Julian about this in >regards to the KSE changes, he said that NetBSD wasn't using the same versions >of the files and had already removed all the non-NetBSD stuff from their >versions. At this point the non-FreeBSD code has bitrotted and serves to >obfuscate more than anything else. Comments? Sounds good to me. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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