Re: Removal of compat-FreeBSD

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On February 13, 2015 6:46:52 PM EST, Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> wrote:
>	If you are going to disable COMPAT_FREEBSD in GENERIC kernels, then
>you probably also need to disable twe(4) and twa(4) as well.  I would
>not
>be in favor of this.  Several people have written saying they use
>tw_cli.
>I've not written, but I too use tw_cli to manage 3ware cards under
>NetBSD.

That's not at all the same.  Code that can get triggered by an arbitrary executable has a very different attack surface than device drivers that won't be used if you don't have one of those devices in your system.
I'm all for trimming things down, but I don't think it's valid to claim that removing COMPAT_FREEBSD implies the need to remove anything else.

Eric