FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood
Juli Mallett
jmallett at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 2 08:41:53 PST 2003
* De: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au> [ Data: 2003-04-02 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood ]
> > I'd hardly call it a bug, since style(9) explicitly says C files
> > should use __FBSDID().
>
> Another bug. __FBSDID() is is not normally used in the kernel. E.g.,
> rev.1.1 of almost every file in libkern is about removing (sccs) id
> strings since their bloat is not wanted in the kernel. It is true
> that __FBSDID() and suitable stripping can handle this more configurably,
> but no one ever cared enough to change n,000 $FreeBSD$'s to __FBSDID()'s
> in the kernel (ugh) or provide infrastructure (#define lint doesn't count)
> for stripping the ids.
#define STRIP_FBSDID does, however, count I think. It would work just
fine in opt_global.h, too, if someone threw the necessary options bit
in, and then users could decide, as well as strip(1)ers.
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