Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:24:57 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: swhetzel@gmail.com, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32 Message-ID: <7d6fde3d1003112024o646afbf2w1ee4d81abae7e608@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100311.192423.683591382013853731.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <4B991C00.3010809@intertainservices.com> <790a9fff1003111714s58d9ee4bl6454d1d52bf705b8@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d1003111720g7dccf93w1f51db88758a5c4d@mail.gmail.com> <20100311.192423.683591382013853731.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:24 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <7d6fde3d1003111720g7dccf93w1f51db88758a5c4d@mail.gmail.com>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> writes:
> : On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> : > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mike Jakubik
> : > <mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com> wrote:
> : >> On 3/11/2010 9:50 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> : >>>
> : >>> As a result of importing 32-bit compatibility support for non-x86 6=
4-bit
> : >>> platforms, the kernel options COMPAT_IA32 has been renamed COMPAT_F=
REEBSD32
> : >>> in revision 205014, so all kernel configurations including this opt=
ion must
> : >>> be modified accordingly.
> : >>>
> : >>
> : >> That sounds a bit confusing, compatibility with FreeBSD 3.2?
> : >>
> : > I agree that the name COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is confusing, does it mean
> : > compatiblity with FreeBSD 3.2, FreeBSD 32 or 32-bit ARCH's.
> : >
> : > A better name would have been COMPAT_ARCH32 or COMPAT_32BIT_ARCH.
> :
> : Agreed. Is it possible to change the name again because it really
> : hasn't gotten much traction yet?
>
> What does the name matter, really?
>
> This will be documented, and mirrors the kernel source
> compat/freebsd32.
>
> Put another way: if everybody that's going to comment on the name
> would instead fix one bug from the PR database with the time they
> spend commenting on it, would FreeBSD be better or worse off than
> spending dozens of hours arguing over COMPAT_X32 vs COMPAT_Y32 vs
> COMPAT_FLYING_MONKEYS?
I can haz PR review then? Here's an easy one :)...
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D144644
Thanks,
-Garrett
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