Re: supporting old code in -current..

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:52:28 -0700
Scott Long wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>
>> In the following files (and their modules) we have the following in 
>> -current.
>>
>>
>> src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic_osm_lib.h
>> src/sys/dev/mpt/mpt.h
>>
>> #if __FreeBSD_version > 500005
>> [...]
>> #else
>> [blah]
>> #endif
>>
>> is this worth maintaining?
>>
>> are the maintainers for mpt and aic supporting 4.x with the same 
>> sources somewhere?
>>
> 
> At one point, the code was shared between different OS versions for both
> of the these drivers.  Adding locking hurt that a bit, and I mostly 
> consider 4.x compat to be an obstacle at this point.  I don't care if
> this gets broken by your kthread/kproc changes.

It's not broken.. I added a 800001 clause

I just wondered if it was still worth keeping it all.

> 
> Scott
Received on Sun Oct 21 2007 - 17:52:33 UTC

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