Subject: Re: the path from nathanw_sa -> newlock2
To: Bucky Katz <bucky@picovex.com>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/15/2007 02:58:17
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Hello,

On Feb 15, 2007, at 02:23, Bucky Katz wrote:

> Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org> writes:
>
>> It got removed from -current, AFTER 4.0 was branched so the first
>> release with the new threading code will be 5.0 which will probably
>> happen in 2008 or later. Unless you're using -current in whatever
>> product you're working on you have plenty of time to adjust and
>> whatever fixes you come up with will be useful for the 4.0 branch.
>> I would understand such an outcry if a change like that had happened 
>> on
>> a release branch but - well - it didn't.
>
> Guess who has to work in -current because the arm port maintainer
> didn't commit the OMAP architecture in time for it to make the 4.0
> branch?

And how exactly does that force you to use -current? Nothing keeps you 
from applying your fixes to the 4.0 branch. I didn't follow the OMAP 
changes, mainly because that's not exactly my work area but if you tell 
me what exactly needs to be pulled into 4.0 ( ideally in terms of 
commit messages on source-changes@netbsd.org ) I'll see to it - should 
be trivial, the branch isn't exactly old.
Anyway, you're right about the maintainer problem.

Besides that - how does your code depend on SA threads?

have fun
Michael
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