svn commit: r205014 - in head: . sys/amd64/amd64 sys/amd64/conf sys/amd64/include sys/amd64/linux32 sys/compat/freebsd32 sys/compat/ia32 sys/conf sys/fs/procfs sys/ia64/conf sys/ia64/ia64 sys/ia64/...

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20100313090844.GV8200 at hoeg.nl>
            Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl> writes:
: * Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com> wrote:
: > COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily
: > interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2".
: 
: That's no problem, since COMPAT_FREEBSD%d was already a misnomer. It
: would have been a lot better if it were replaced by a numerical
: definition:
: 
: options	COMPAT_FREEBSD_MAJOR=7

that sounds like a good idea.  But it isn't as simple as changing all
the COMPAT_FREEBSDX in the .c code.  There's also hooks in the syscall
glue generation that would be affected.

Warner