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Date:      Mon, 06 Oct 1997 22:59:07 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to detect different kernel code (select or poll) 
Message-ID:  <199710070559.WAA00280@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Oct 1997 20:31:43 -0000." <199710062031.NAA24338@usr04.primenet.com> 

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Hi,

I think that our current problem is that the poll code is not in 
2.2 and whoever checked in the code  should have at least thought of the
incompatibility issues . One option is not to support 2.2
which the poll check in so far seems to imply at least with
respect to drivers. The incompatibility inherent with the
poll check in was deliberate to force the drivers to 
migrate to the new interface.

A related issue is :  what is the cut off point for  backwards compatibility?

	Amancio




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