HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mike Jakubik
> <mike.jakubik at intertainservices.com> wrote:
>> On 3/11/2010 9:50 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>>
>>> As a result of importing 32-bit compatibility support for non-x86 64-bit
>>> platforms, the kernel options COMPAT_IA32 has been renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32
>>> in revision 205014, so all kernel configurations including this option must
>>> be modified accordingly.
>>>
>>
>> That sounds a bit confusing, compatibility with FreeBSD 3.2?
>>
> I agree that the name COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is confusing, does it mean
> compatiblity with FreeBSD 3.2, FreeBSD 32 or 32-bit ARCH's.
>
> A better name would have been COMPAT_ARCH32 or COMPAT_32BIT_ARCH.

Agreed. Is it possible to change the name again because it really
hasn't gotten much traction yet?
Thanks,
-Garrett