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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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