[illumos-Developer] remove SVR3 (ancient) support from svr4 packaging

[Jason King]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 15:35 +0000, Peter Tribble wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
>> > I decided to break my earlier packaging deltas up to make them more
>> > readable.  The first round, which removes ancient pre-SVR4 packages
>> > (i.e. SVR3) is here:
>> >
>> > http://mexico.purplecow.org/gdamore/webrev/nosvr3pkg/
>> >
>> > I'd appreciate a timely review, as I'd like to integrate these changes
>> > soon.
>>
>> Looks fine to me.
>>
>> One query, more for my education really: what's this note.h and _NOTE stuff?
>
> Its another, more precise, way to tell lint about your code.  This way
> you can suppress very precise lint warnings with this meta information,
> which is more precise than /*LINTED*/ or /*ARGSUNUSED*/  (because we can
> specify exactly *which* argument(s) are unused, for example.)
>
> I use it pretty heavily in the kernel, and I prefer it to the /*LINTED*/
> style of comment whenever practical.

Out of curiosity, are the values actually documented anywhere?  I
remember trying to find those and was unsuccessful in the past.