From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 5 12:20:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E2B37B405; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:20:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA62103; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:13:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:13:48 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: John Baldwin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, bp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Remove non-FreeBSD code from fs's In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > Would there be any objection to removing all the non-FreeBSD code (such as the > #ifdef NetBSD stuff) from hpfs, smbfs, nwfs, and the like? We have already > drastically broken compatibility with other BSD's by replacing simple locks > with mutexes and the KSE changes. When I talked to Julian about this in > regards to the KSE changes, he said that NetBSD wasn't using the same versions > of the files and had already removed all the non-NetBSD stuff from their > versions. At this point the non-FreeBSD code has bitrotted and serves to > obfuscate more than anything else. Comments? The person to really talk to would of course be Boris. > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message