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Subject: Re: svn commit: r205014 - in head: . sys/amd64/amd64
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In message: <20100313090844.GV8200@hoeg.nl>
            Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> writes:
: * Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com> wrote:
: > COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily
: > interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2".
: 
: That's no problem, since COMPAT_FREEBSD%d was already a misnomer. It
: would have been a lot better if it were replaced by a numerical
: definition:
: 
: options	COMPAT_FREEBSD_MAJOR=7

that sounds like a good idea.  But it isn't as simple as changing all
the COMPAT_FREEBSDX in the .c code.  There's also hooks in the syscall
glue generation that would be affected.

Warner