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Date:      Sun, 21 Apr 2002 05:53:17 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES
Message-ID:  <20020421054632.L23741-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020420151104.P29857@espresso.q9media.com>

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On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote:

> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> > Er, this breaks LINT.  The purpose of LINT is to break expose breakage so
> > that it gets fixed.  History shows that commenting out things in LINT
> > results in them not being fixed for longer.
>
> The commit logs seemed to indicate that hea was a work in progress and
> doesn't generally work.  I assumed hfa was also completely broken, but
> I see now that mdodd just got it working again 3 days ago.  I'll
> reenable hfa, but there's no sense in enabling hea since it's a work
> in progress and can only serve to disrupt other people's work.

Both may be completely broken at runtime, but the lines for them had
not even been edited in NOTES for more than 2 years, so they must not
have been breaking LINT for most of that time.  IIRC, they used to
cause lots of warnings but the warnings were fixed soon after warnings
became errors.

Bruce


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