From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 22 19:51:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2304E16A420; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:51:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1BC43D49; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:51:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [10.10.3.185] ([69.15.205.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2MJpamf041483; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:51:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4421AAC1.7050705@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:51:29 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl References: <200603212156.k2LLu4HU089247@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060322094944.2oz3lydykgw8ossg@netchild.homeip.net> <200603221004.54977.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060322192838.7921dda9@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <4421A4DB.6000108@samsco.org> <20060322193319.GA63231@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060322193319.GA63231@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin , cvs-src@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:51:47 -0000 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:26:19PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >>Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> >>>Am Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:04:50 -0500 >>>schrieb John Baldwin : >>> >>> >>> >>>>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. > > > As long as it is surgically/cleanly removed to ensure that Alpha > at least continues to build removing Linux compatibility does not > appear too much of a problem. > > Wilko I agree. Scott