Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:01:22 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r205014 - in head: . sys/amd64/amd64 sys/amd64/conf sys/amd64/include sys/amd64/linux32 sys/compat/freebsd32 sys/compat/ia32 sys/conf sys/fs/procfs sys/ia64/conf sys/ia64/ia64 sys/ia64/... Message-ID: <861vfpfxl9.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <3F878223-7A35-4A27-9DA8-92239C635EC1@FreeBSD.org> (Rui Paulo's message of "Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:52:27 %2B0900") References: <201003111449.o2BEn6QY069179@svn.freebsd.org> <e71790db1003120436u34370f40x64a72da41893a39a@mail.gmail.com> <3F878223-7A35-4A27-9DA8-92239C635EC1@FreeBSD.org>
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Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com> writes: > > COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily > > interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like > > "COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful. > This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who provided > valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone else's. The committer who provided valuable time on this code was warned that COMPAT_FREEBSD32 was probably the worst imaginable option and that it would set off a bikeshed. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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