Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:52:28 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: supporting old code in -current.. Message-ID: <471BADFC.7080300@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <471BA12B.7060302@samsco.org> References: <471AD8B7.2000007@elischer.org> <471BA12B.7060302@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote: > 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. It's not broken.. I added a 800001 clause I just wondered if it was still worth keeping it all. > > Scott
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