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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:50:42 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_acl.c kern_descrip.c kern_event.c kern_mac.c sys_pipe.c sys_socket.c uipc_socket.c uipc_syscalls.c uipc_usrreq.c vfs_aio.c vfs_syscalls.c vfs_vnops.c src/sys/netgraph ng_socket.c src/sys/sys file.h src/sys/ufs/ffs ...
Message-ID:  <20030112075042.GE33821@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030112014644.F212@locore.ca>
References:  <200301120137.h0C1bD0E098037@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030111213259.E212@locore.ca> <200301120254.h0C2srcS043241@apollo.backplane.com> <20030112014644.F212@locore.ca>

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* Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> [030111 22:46] wrote:
> 
> Its unnecessary code churn.  I wouldn't be surprised if struct file was
> used all the place in 3rd party modules, especially MAC modules.  Now
> they either need an ugly compat define or ugly idfefs.  Some of your commits
> were to code that's externally maintained.  We've broken compatibility with
> external code before for compelling reasons.  This is not a compelling reason.
> 
> You obviously don't think this is important, I do.  If no one else cares about
> this I'll shut up now.

I prefer Jake's idea of just removing the casts where they are unneeded.

This adds unneeded complexity and renaming that we don't need.

It also reduces diffs to what will be 5-stable.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'

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