Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 09:05:01 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912190902430.3912-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912192306110.7159-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
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> > This is a bug in the drivers. Don't hide it by breaking LINT. I don't know many people that would rather have LINT not compile than compile but without an old, soon-to-be-really-deprecated driver. > > The drivers used to be sort link-level compatible. Only wcd and acd > were very incompatible (because there are 2 files (mis)named atapi-cd.c; > the ata one should be named acd.c and the wcd one should be named wcd.c > like an old version of it was). This problem used to be hidden by > breaking LINT in a different way (commenting out wcd0). Who is going to "fix" the drivers themselves? Things would have to be renamed... And at some point, wasn't LINT a functional kernel? > > Bruce > > -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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