Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:49:40 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>, FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is the purpose of BURN_BRIDGES? Message-ID: <CANCZdfqTkQJaJ=QwMzs7c_ZGWr0pfhVV1emyZS0kEhLeSqizgg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <11829.1553799988@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <1fd4571d-0da1-e325-b6a1-a3cc12f2f05d@embedded-brains.de> <CAOtMX2jCHqrESzNZKpOcfEL1oc4JRP2u5io7zTMj9AiJO71Cfw@mail.gmail.com> <11829.1553799988@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 1:08 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > -------- > In message < > CAOtMX2jCHqrESzNZKpOcfEL1oc4JRP2u5io7zTMj9AiJO71Cfw@mail.gmail.com> > , Alan Somers writes: > > >New global option: BURN_BRIDGES > > > >Compile out code that will disappear in 6.0, per Peter Wemm's bridge > >burning proposal. > > Yeah, turned out Peters matches were not as dry as we had hoped :-) > It was intended as a way to tag old, obscure code for removal. It lost steam, though I'd like to kill most of the code under it... many of the bridges to be removed were, just not all of them. Warner -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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