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Re: NetBSD hacker needed?
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Robert Millan |
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Re: NetBSD hacker needed? |
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Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:58:32 +0000 |
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:53:51AM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
> --- Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > No idea on what happened. But note that the GRUB documentation claims to
> > support all *BSD.
>
> The documentation is always out of date as well as many other projects.
Good that we don't need to fix it, then ;)
> Please don't do that. Using cpp conditionals is an evil of necessity really.
> Such code is unreadble and unmaintainable.
>
> You might think the difference between UFS and UFS2 is quite small, but that
> won't be true in my experience. Suppose that UFS2 will be extended in the
> future. Imagine that UFS3 will appear.
>
> Just copy code and/or segregate common functions, if you want to reuse code in
> this case.
Ok. Actualy I don't have a clear idea on this, I was merely speculating.
Shigeya: Are you willing to help on UFS2? If you are, start reading the
following threads:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-07/msg00040.html
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-07/msg00111.html
And contact Chris Reichow <chris at reichow dot net> to coordinate work
with him (perhaps he has some unfinished code). I'm CCing him btw.
--
Robert Millan
"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
- NetBSD hacker needed?, Shigeya Suzuki, 2003/09/06
- Re: NetBSD hacker needed?, Yoshinori Okuji, 2003/09/07
- Re: NetBSD hacker needed?, Robert Millan, 2003/09/08
- Re: NetBSD hacker needed?, Yoshinori Okuji, 2003/09/08
- Re: NetBSD hacker needed?, Robert Millan, 2003/09/08
- Re: NetBSD hacker needed?, Yoshinori Okuji, 2003/09/08
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- Re: NetBSD hacker needed?, Shigeya Suzuki, 2003/09/08
- Re: NetBSD hacker needed?, Shigeya Suzuki, 2003/09/08
- Re: NetBSD hacker needed?, Robert Millan, 2003/09/09