Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:57:47 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: supporting old code in -current.. Message-ID: <471BA12B.7060302@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <471AD8B7.2000007@elischer.org> References: <471AD8B7.2000007@elischer.org>
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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. Scott
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