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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:38:34 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r200606 - in head/sys: compat/freebsd32 sys
Message-ID:  <4B2C127A.8060509@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <868wd0cyjd.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200912161717.nBGHHeQZ005541@svn.freebsd.org>	<200912161541.53834.jhb@freebsd.org> <868wd0cyjd.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
>> Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org> writes:
>>> Log:
>>>   Fix compiling FREEBSD_COMPAT[4,5,6] without FREEBSD_COMPAT7.
>>>   
>>>   Note: Not sure this is the right way to do compat, but it makes the
>>>   headers consistent with the implementations.
>> Please revert.  I think this has already been reverted once before.
> 
> Yep, that was me...  we concluded back then that this is a perfectly
> reasonable dependency; perhaps we should simply add the appropriate
> #ifndef / #error constructs so you can't define FREEBSD_COMPAT(n)
> without FREEBSD_COMPAT(n+1).

Trying to look at this from the user perspective, it's kind of silly
that if what I want is COMPAT5 I also need to add COMPAT<somethingelse>.

I don't know the issues in the code so I don't know what the solution
should be on the back end, but on the front end what needs to work is
that I specify the compat level I want in my kernel config, then the
code does what's necessary to make that work.


Doug

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