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

[Scott Long]

Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:26:19PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> As long as it is surgically/cleanly removed to ensure that Alpha 
> at least continues to build removing Linux compatibility does not
> appear too much of a problem.
> 
> Wilko

I agree.
Scott