From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Feb 23 11:56:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7135937B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:56:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0554043FCB for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:56:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0262.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.7] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18n2Ew-0005s9-00; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:56:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3E59272E.83E8072D@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:55:26 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing support for SimOS References: <20030223081234.GA37539@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <3E5889FD.56474AC7@mindspring.com> <20030223100244.GB52621@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <3E58A06B.B09B99B6@mindspring.com> <20030223193858.GA564@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a43118bec1cfee21b53690a34e58379378667c3043c0873f7e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 02:20:27AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I'm just wondering why you are removing support for something that > > apparently works, to make it not work? > > It already doesn't work and there's no indication that there's an > interest in making it work again. In the mean time it's preventing > LINT from linking and thus is getting in the way. OK, so someone made a commit that broke LINT because it failed to maintain the SIMOS #ifdef'ed code. This makes a lot more sense to remove it, then (but reverting the commit that caused it to break also makes sense, to me...). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message