re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jul 26,  5:07am, mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost (matthew green) wrote:
-- Subject: re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

You should read the hack before commenting. In this case it just allows
a packet that would have gotten EINVAL before to go through.

christos

| i dunno...
| 
| 
| i've worked hard to remove & keep compat-specific code out of
| MI code (as has jd) and hacks like this are exactly the sort
| of thing i really dislike.  i know where jd is coming from and
| i think i support his position more than christos'.
| 
| in this case, the hack is always broken somehow:
| 
|       - if it's only there with COMPAT_LINUX it means the LKM
|       won't work
| 
|       - if it's always present it means that _everyone_ gets
|       his behaviour not just linux binaries.
| 
| 
| 
| .mrg.
-- End of excerpt from matthew green