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

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Mon Nov 8 08:50:38 PST 2010


On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 10:42 -0600, Jason King wrote:
> 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.

Probably in the lint documentation, but I'm not sure.

	- Garrett

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