Quoting Rui Paulo <rpa...@freebsd.org> (from Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:52:27 +0900):
On 12 Mar 2010, at 21:36, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn
<nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote:
Author: nwhitehorn
Date: Thu Mar 11 14:49:06 2010
New Revision: 205014
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205014
Log:
Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86 platforms,
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI parts
of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support
big-endian platforms.
COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily
interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like
"COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful.
There's a lengthy discussion about this on another mailing list.
This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who
provided valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone
else's.
As someone "outside of the box" (I do not care which name is used), I
have to say that the current influx of mails regarding this is some
kind of indication that there are POLA implications ahead or if you
want to have a buzzword, it looks to me like people think the
usability of the COMPAT_FREEBSD* stuff was lowered by this,
respectively the userfriendlyness degraded, or with again some
different words, the COMPAT_FREEBSD* options are not intuitive to use
anymore. When I look at our man-pages or the handbook, it looks like
one of the goals is to make a feature easy (relative to the complexity
of the topic) to use.
I do not care much about what you (plural) do about this, but to me it
looks like the fastest way to not waste more time with this is to
change the name to something less ambiguous compared to what the other
COMPAT_FREEBSD* options do.
Bye,
Alexander.
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