From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 5 13:52:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB4B37B416; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fA5LmPA35299; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:48:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:48:25 -0800 From: David Greenman To: John Baldwin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, bp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Remove non-FreeBSD code from fs's Message-ID: <20011105134825.B1114@nexus.root.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:10:04PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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