Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:07:09 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: ed@80386.nl Cc: unixmania@gmail.com, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, 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: <20100313.090709.407454645627448944.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20100313090844.GV8200@hoeg.nl> References: <201003111449.o2BEn6QY069179@svn.freebsd.org> <e71790db1003120436u34370f40x64a72da41893a39a@mail.gmail.com> <20100313090844.GV8200@hoeg.nl>
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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
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