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Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: supporting old code in -current..
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> In the following files (and their modules) we have the following in 
> -current.
> 
> 
> src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic_osm_lib.h
> src/sys/dev/mpt/mpt.h
> 
> #if __FreeBSD_version > 500005
> [...]
> #else
> [blah]
> #endif
> 
> is this worth maintaining?
> 
> are the maintainers for mpt and aic supporting 4.x with the same sources 
> somewhere?
> 

At one point, the code was shared between different OS versions for both
of the these drivers.  Adding locking hurt that a bit, and I mostly 
consider 4.x compat to be an obstacle at this point.  I don't care if
this gets broken by your kthread/kproc changes.

Scott