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Date:      Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:15:29 +0100 (CET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Remove non-FreeBSD code from fs's
Message-ID:  <200111052015.fA5KFUB68849@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011105121004.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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It seems John Baldwin wrote:
> Would there be any objection to removing all the non-FreeBSD code (such as the
> #ifdef NetBSD stuff) from hpfs, smbfs, nwfs, and the like?  We have already
> drastically broken compatibility with other BSD's by replacing simple locks
> with mutexes and the KSE changes.  When I talked to Julian about this in
> regards to the KSE changes, he said that NetBSD wasn't using the same versions
> of the files and had already removed all the non-NetBSD stuff from their
> versions.  At this point the non-FreeBSD code has bitrotted and serves to
> obfuscate more than anything else.  Comments?

You have my go-ahead...

-Søren

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