From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 11 13:53:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23427 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:53:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23421 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:53:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA95188; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:52:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:52:43 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902112152.NAA95188@apollo.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC References: <199902112146.OAA14022@usr06.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :It is. : :This is basically a complaint on the order of the FreeBSD version :identification code in the if_de.c driver that prevents you from :cross compiling older/newer kernels on newer/older systems. : :I suppose I should point out the __NetBSD__ tests in various places :also count as needless bloat (in if_de.c, but in lots of other places, :too). : : Terry Lambert : terry@lambert.org Only if the NetBSD people aren't using the code. Otherwise I don't count it as bloat since it isn't actually compiled into our binaries. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message