Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:26:19 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, alpha@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c Message-ID: <4421A4DB.6000108@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060322192838.7921dda9@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <200603212156.k2LLu4HU089247@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060322094944.2oz3lydykgw8ossg@netchild.homeip.net> <200603221004.54977.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060322192838.7921dda9@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Am Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:04:50 -0500 > schrieb John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>: > > >>On Wednesday 22 March 2006 03:49, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > >>>If nobody is using the linuxolator on alpha with a recent FreeBSD (either >>>because everything is used on x86/amd64 hardware, and/or because there's no >>>usable linux_base for alpha), I think it would be best to remove the linux >>>part from alpha. It would make the code in compat/linux cleaner. >> >>Or just undo what you did above and leave it as it is. :) I've done various >>things on the compat code over and haven't been really bothered by the >>#ifdef __alpha__'s. > > > But this would introduce a dependency on COMPAT_43 again... > > Bye, > Alexander. > In all honesty, Alpha is tier-2, and its days are numbered. That doesn't mean that I'm proposing that it get axed from CVS right now, but I also don't think that it is worth spending a lot of time on. Scott
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