proposed patch to improve seperation between kernel and userland code
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sun Mar 14 22:08:07 PST 2004
:> * libdisk should probably still be made part of the build.
:
:OK, but I'm not sure why. The only consumer of libdisk in the base
:system is sysinstall AFAICT, and from what I understand, that's going
:away, thanks to Rob. If there happen to be ports or other 3rd-party
:software that use libdisk, well, how about making libdisk itself a port?
It hasn't gone away *yet*.
:> * I'm on the fence in regards to sys/dir.h. If it is possible I
:> would prefer that it be left working.
:
:OK. I just wanted to push the envelope and see how much I could shut
:off without breakage - I have no strong feelings on killing sys/dir.h,
:so I'll put it back.
Ok, I think that's a good idea. The first commit shouldn't try to
combine large code compatibility issues with excellent cleanups.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:> Generally speaking, the stuff looks pretty good. I think it is
:> commitable with the above two changes, with the provisio that we
:> may have to revert additional pieces of it if we start getting
:> complaints about ports.
:
:Since it's only a matter of adding a #define or tweaking an #include,
:I'd rather patch the ports (except where I might've miscalculated with
:which headers truly deserve these kernel-only distinctions of course.)
:It's actually 3rd-party software that's not in the ports tree that
:worries me more - I don't want DFly to get a reputation for "hard to
:build sources on because they do funky things with their headers".
:(Obviously I don't think they're funky, I think they're *sane*, but...)
:
:I'll go re-install some ports at random to test for breakage now.
:
:Thanks,
:
:-Chris
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