What is the purpose of BURN_BRIDGES?

[Sebastian Huber]

On 28/03/2019 20:49, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 1:08 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk 
> <mailto:phk at phk.freebsd.dk>> wrote:
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>     In message
>     <CAOtMX2jCHqrESzNZKpOcfEL1oc4JRP2u5io7zTMj9AiJO71Cfw at mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:CAOtMX2jCHqrESzNZKpOcfEL1oc4JRP2u5io7zTMj9AiJO71Cfw at mail.gmail.com>>
>     , Alan Somers writes:
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>     >New global option: BURN_BRIDGES
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>     >Compile out code that will disappear in 6.0, per Peter Wemm's bridge
>     >burning proposal.
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>     Yeah, turned out Peters matches were not as dry as we had hoped :-)
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> It was intended as a way to tag old, obscure code for removal. It lost 
> steam, though I'd like to kill most of the code under it... many of 
> the bridges to be removed were, just not all of them.

My aim was to get rid of the legacy support in sys/net/bpf.c.

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