Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 11:21:46 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, julian@whistle.com, bde@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bruce vandalism again Message-ID: <199712210051.LAA01562@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Dec 1997 10:26:30 -0800." <199712201826.KAA19822@bubba.whistle.com>
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> OK, so here's a thought experiment: > > Suppose somebody suddenly showed up with a giant patch file that: > > (a) Got rid of all uses of __P() in the kernel (ie, unwrapped them > so that all function declarations used ANSI protptypes) This wouldn't be much worse than the $Id$->$FreeBSD$->$Id$ change. I think we could survive it OK. > (b) Changed every function definition to use ANSI prototypes as well This would be on the order of the trailing whitespace changes; you'd want a committer that was prepared to die for the cause. > Would it get committed? I suspect that you would be facing some fairly concerted opposition from people that don't like change. There's certainly plenty of popular support for it though. mikehome | help
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