Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:33:19 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@xs4all.nl> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c Message-ID: <20060322193319.GA63231@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4421A4DB.6000108@samsco.org> References: <200603212156.k2LLu4HU089247@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060322094944.2oz3lydykgw8ossg@netchild.homeip.net> <200603221004.54977.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060322192838.7921dda9@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <4421A4DB.6000108@samsco.org>
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:26:19PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >Am Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:04:50 -0500 > >schrieb John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>: > > > > > >>On Wednesday 22 March 2006 03:49, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > > > >>>If nobody is using the linuxolator on alpha with a recent FreeBSD (either > >>>because everything is used on x86/amd64 hardware, and/or because there's > >>>no > >>>usable linux_base for alpha), I think it would be best to remove the > >>>linux > >>>part from alpha. It would make the code in compat/linux cleaner. > >> > >>Or just undo what you did above and leave it as it is. :) I've done > >>various > >>things on the compat code over and haven't been really bothered by the > >>#ifdef __alpha__'s. > > > > > >But this would introduce a dependency on COMPAT_43 again... > > > >Bye, > >Alexander. > > > > In all honesty, Alpha is tier-2, and its days are numbered. That > doesn't mean that I'm proposing that it get axed from CVS right now, > but I also don't think that it is worth spending a lot of time on. As long as it is surgically/cleanly removed to ensure that Alpha at least continues to build removing Linux compatibility does not appear too much of a problem. Wilko
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