cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c

[Scott Long]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Am Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:04:50 -0500
> schrieb John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>:
> 
> 
>>On Wednesday 22 March 2006 03:49, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
> 
>>>If nobody is using the linuxolator on alpha with a recent FreeBSD (either
>>>because everything is used on x86/amd64 hardware, and/or because there's no
>>>usable linux_base for alpha), I think it would be best to remove the linux
>>>part from alpha. It would make the code in compat/linux cleaner.
>>
>>Or just undo what you did above and leave it as it is. :)  I've done various
>>things on the compat code over and haven't been really bothered by the
>>#ifdef __alpha__'s.
> 
> 
> But this would introduce a dependency on COMPAT_43 again...
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 

In all honesty, Alpha is tier-2, and its days are numbered.  That 
doesn't mean that I'm proposing that it get axed from CVS right now,
but I also don't think that it is worth spending a lot of time on.


Scott