supporting old code in -current..
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Sun Oct 21 11:58:18 PDT 2007
Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> In the following files (and their modules) we have the following in
> -current.
>
>
> src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic_osm_lib.h
> src/sys/dev/mpt/mpt.h
>
> #if __FreeBSD_version > 500005
> [...]
> #else
> [blah]
> #endif
>
> is this worth maintaining?
>
> are the maintainers for mpt and aic supporting 4.x with the same sources
> somewhere?
>
At one point, the code was shared between different OS versions for both
of the these drivers. Adding locking hurt that a bit, and I mostly
consider 4.x compat to be an obstacle at this point. I don't care if
this gets broken by your kthread/kproc changes.
Scott
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