cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/pc98/conf NOTES

[Juli Mallett]

* Mike Barcroft <mike at FreeBSD.org> [ Date: 2003-05-17 ]
	[ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/pc98/conf NOTES ]
> Juli Mallett <jmallett at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > jmallett    2003/05/14 19:10:30 PDT
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/conf             NOTES 
> >     sys/i386/conf        NOTES 
> >     sys/pc98/conf        NOTES 
> >   Log:
> >   Clear up that COMPAT_43 may not do the same thing on every architecture
> >   and clear up that COMPAT_SUNOS is similarly MI, and does something
> >   relatively similar.
> >   
> >   Approved by:    re/rwatson
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.1149    +10 -1     src/sys/conf/NOTES
> >   1.1088    +0 -3      src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
> >   1.8       +0 -3      src/sys/pc98/conf/NOTES
> 
> COMPAT_SUNOS should probably be removed and COMPAT_43 renamed to
> COMPAT_FREEBSD[1-3].

Minimal traditional behaviour might be nice to keep around, but
I'm torn between wanting it to be more fine-grained, and wanting
it to be less fine-grained.  Anything for truly traditional
behaviour should be marked as such.  Abuse of COMPAT_43 for more
recent traditions should be marked as such.

I'm tempted to say that it should be possible to turn them all off
with a config(8) knob, and even when on, have them as fine-grained
sysctls.

Then, people who just need COMPAT_SUNOS who don't want COMPAT_43
could just twiddle a few knobs.

Thanx,
juli.
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