Re: Candidates for inclusion in DEFAULTS

From: Divacky Roman <xdivac02_at_stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:11:57 +0100
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:53:03AM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> Just looking through the kernel code, and there are many strong warnings (in
> NOTES, GENERIC and various bits of code) that strongly advise *not* removing
> COMPAT_43 from the kernel config.
> 
> In fact, doing so causes lots of things to break, especially the
> Linuxulator.
> 
> That said, would COMPAT_43 (and possibly COMPAT_FREEBSD4 and
> COMPAT_FREEBSD5) be good candidates to put in DEFAULTS -- at least on i386?

I have patch in queue which removes dependancy of linuxator on COMPAT_43
(hysteria.sk/~neologism/linux43.patch) - its tested on amd64/i386 but havent
tried alpha (not even building it - anyone willing to test this?)

and I plan to work to split COMPAT_43 into whats necessary for tty stuff and
the rest. after this we can remove COMPAT_43 from even GENERIC imho.

I dont think that moving in the direction you suggest is correct.

roman
Received on Mon Jan 02 2006 - 09:12:04 UTC

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