Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 07/24/2003 22:58:39
Yes, I do plan to fix this properly fairly soon.

Jaromir

Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20030724073050.25D0FB004@cvs.netbsd.org>,
> Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >Module Name:	src
> >Committed By:	jdolecek
> >Date:		Thu Jul 24 07:30:50 UTC 2003
> >
> >Modified Files:
> >	src/sys/kern: uipc_usrreq.c
> >
> >Log Message:
> >back rev 1.63 (the linux hack) off - no compat specific code
> >in generic code, please
> >
> >we need to massage the passed linux cmsg anyway, linux uses different
> >alignment for CMSG_DATA on at least some architectures
> 
> The code said specifically why it was there. Unless you are planning
> to implement CMSG_DATA massaging in compat_linux in the next few
> weeks, I am putting it back. It is complicated to do the CMSG_DATA
> massaging, and not needed for the i386, which is where most emulated
> code runs. I think the ability to run xoveroffice is more important
> than this tiny hack.
> 
> I also fail to understand why you proceeded backing this out, when
> I explicitly replied to your e-mail explaining why it was done.
> 
> christos
> 

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