supporting old code in -current..
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Sun Oct 21 12:52:33 PDT 2007
Scott Long wrote:
> 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.
It's not broken.. I added a 800001 clause
I just wondered if it was still worth keeping it all.
>
> Scott
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