Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 07:03:00 +0100 From: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is the purpose of BURN_BRIDGES? Message-ID: <b968d29c-dc66-06f3-532b-b1e9bc05983d@embedded-brains.de> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqTkQJaJ=QwMzs7c_ZGWr0pfhVV1emyZS0kEhLeSqizgg@mail.gmail.com> References: <1fd4571d-0da1-e325-b6a1-a3cc12f2f05d@embedded-brains.de> <CAOtMX2jCHqrESzNZKpOcfEL1oc4JRP2u5io7zTMj9AiJO71Cfw@mail.gmail.com> <11829.1553799988@critter.freebsd.dk> <CANCZdfqTkQJaJ=QwMzs7c_ZGWr0pfhVV1emyZS0kEhLeSqizgg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28/03/2019 20:49, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 1:08 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk=20 > <mailto:phk@phk.freebsd.dk>> wrote: > > -------- > In message > <CAOtMX2jCHqrESzNZKpOcfEL1oc4JRP2u5io7zTMj9AiJO71Cfw@mail.gmail.com > <mailto:CAOtMX2jCHqrESzNZKpOcfEL1oc4JRP2u5io7zTMj9AiJO71Cfw@mail.gm= ail.com>> > , Alan Somers writes: > > >New global option: BURN_BRIDGES > > > >Compile out code that will disappear in 6.0, per Peter Wemm's brid= ge > >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=20 > steam, though I'd like to kill most of the code under it... many of=20 > the bridges to be removed were, just not all of them. My aim was to get rid of the legacy support in sys/net/bpf.c. --=20 Sebastian Huber, embedded brains GmbH Address : Dornierstr. 4, D-82178 Puchheim, Germany Phone : +49 89 189 47 41-16 Fax : +49 89 189 47 41-09 E-Mail : sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de PGP : Public key available on request. Diese Nachricht ist keine gesch=C3=A4ftliche Mitteilung im Sinne des EHUG= .
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