Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys

[Antti Kantee <pooka%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed Aug 15 2007 at 21:06:27 +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > Autogenerate namei.h from namei.src to get duplicate values for some
> > less-than-optimally namespaced macros (e.g. LOOKUP -> NAMEI_LOOKUP).
> 
> There has to be a better way that needing to commit generated files.
> I've not looked at this one, but the cpp can be (ab)used to generate
> multiple items from a single list of information.

You are correct.  However, the princess is in another castle.  The real
question here is why do we want to preserve the old names at all.
The answer: we don't, their holyness didn't hold water.  So I'll be
renaming them all some nice rototilly day coming soon to you a cvs repo
near you.

-- 
Antti Kantee <pooka%iki.fi@localhost>                     Of course he runs 
NetBSD
http://www.iki.fi/pooka/                          http://www.NetBSD.org/
    "la qualité la plus indispensable du cuisinier est l'exactitude"