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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 1998 16:19:41 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam cam_xpt.c
Message-ID:  <199812240519.QAA30927@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> >  Modified files:
>> >    sys/cam              cam_xpt.c 
>> >  Log:
>> >  Unstaticize swi_camnet && swi_cambio so Alpha kernels can build again.
>> 
>> This is a regression.  It is a bug for swi_camnet and swi_cambio to
>> be hard-configured in the alpha ihandlers[].  It is another bug for
>> cam to access ihandlers[] directly instead of using register_swi().
>> register_swi() apparently works on alphas since it is used in sio.c.
>> 
>
>It's possibly a bug for people to gratuitously break other architectures
>so they don't build and therefore don't run, no matter how pure the
>motivation. That trumps the purity argument, IMHO.

Possibly, but here they exposed existing breakage.  Standard modules
can't have pointers to optional modules.

Bruce

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