Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:51:29 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl Cc: src-committers@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: <4421AAC1.7050705@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060322193319.GA63231@xs4all.nl> 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> <20060322193319.GA63231@xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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 I agree. Scott
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