Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 12:18:17 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: LINUX COMPAT_LINUX Message-ID: <199605021918.MAA17987@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 May 1996 14:23:01 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.92.960502142147.214F-100000@xi.dorm.umd.edu>
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>On Thu, 2 May 1996, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> I'ts renamed to COMPAT_LINUX, which I'm told is also bad, but at least >> it doesn't break the compile of the kernel. >> >> It may change name again if COMPAT_LINUX is too bad for compatibility... > >COMPAT_LINUX is also what NetBSD uses. Let's keep it this way, so that we >are a little bit more standard. > > >Sujal > I believe that the Linux gcc defines "linux" not "LINUX", so any code in our tree that is supposed to have conditional code for Linux should use the lowercase define. The only place I know of that uses this right now is the sequencer code for the aic7xxx driver. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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