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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 1995 20:18:27 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        davidg@Root.COM, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/libkern locc.c random.c scanc.c skpc.c libkern.h
Message-ID:  <199503180418.UAA19439@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503180416.UAA20285@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 17, 95 08:16:04 pm

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> I think we should just stop building libkern, and for machines that need
> routines from there add them to sys/i386/files.i386.  For people doing a
> new port it is nice to have these generic C functions around, but other
> than that I see libkern.a as an evil thing to have done.

Except that is is hard to avoid having unused bloat in the kernel, I agree.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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