From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 4 13:39:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 0CC5C37B401; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:39:54 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Stefan Farfeleder , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Kernel Hacker page updated... Message-ID: <20021004133953.A80259@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021004134141.GA263@frog.fafoe> <78792.1033763662@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <78792.1033763662@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:34:22PM +0200 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Poul-Henning Kamp [ Data: 2002-10-04 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Junior Kernel Hacker page updated... ] > In message <20021004134141.GA263@frog.fafoe>, Stefan Farfeleder writes: > > > > I have committed your patch, but left it #undef'ed until we get > the kernel straightened out. > > On behalf of the FreeBSD project I have to warn you that if you > persist in doing work of this kind over and over again, you will > eventually be subjected to a commit bit. You have been warned :-) > > Thank you very much for you work! :-) > > Poul-Henning > > >The #ifdefs are already in the code, namely REMOTE and RMT_WILL_WATCH. > >Is anybody using them? Building with -DREMOTE doesn't compile and with > >-DRMT_WILL_WATCH the linker is complaining about the lack of the > >functions Rmt_Ignore(), Rmt_Watch() and Rmt_Wait(). Can't we get rid of > >those defines? I understand Juli Mallett wants to rewrite make, so maybe > >this effort would be wasted. > > I belive the RMT/REMOTE stuff is part of an earlier attempt at putting > in some kind of cluster functionality. > > If it is useful in any capacity, even as hint of what/how to do such > a thing, I think we should leave it. If it is just old junk we > should boot it. NetBSD has it working. I don't recall anymore if the diffs were enough to dissuade me from making ours work, or if I just had no interest. It's gone from my local tree simply because I got tired of grepping for things to debug, and running into ifdef's cruft. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message