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Date:      Mon, 20 Dec 1999 02:10:46 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912200203300.7602-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912190902430.3912-100000@green.dyndns.org>

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On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:

> > This is a bug in the drivers.  Don't hide it by breaking LINT.
> 
> I don't know many people that would rather have LINT not compile
> than compile but without an old, soon-to-be-really-deprecated
> driver.

It won't be really-deprecated until 5.0 or later.

> > The drivers used to be sort link-level compatible.  Only wcd and acd
> > were very incompatible (because there are 2 files (mis)named atapi-cd.c;
> > the ata one should be named acd.c and the wcd one should be named wcd.c
> > like an old version of it was).  This problem used to be hidden by
> > breaking LINT in a different way (commenting out wcd0).
> 
> Who is going to "fix" the drivers themselves?  Things would have to
> be renamed...  And at some point, wasn't LINT a functional kernel?

Driver maintainers should fix their drivers.  No, LINT was never functional,
and was never supposed to be functional.

Bruce



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