Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: delete darwin-user ?

[Blue Swirl]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 13:01, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/12/2012 06:57 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
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>> So, the darwin-user/ subdirectory is officially Orphan, and looking
>> at the git history the last commit to it which wasn't either "apply
>> a global change", "fix cppcheck/spelling error/similar autodetected
>> nit" or "duplicate a linux-user fix into darwin-user and bsd-user"
>> was way back in 2009, perhaps even earlier.
>>
>> If in three years nobody's cared enough about it to manage to get
>> a single darwin-user specific change into the tree, my suggestion
>> would be that it is in practice dead and we should make that
>> official by deleting it. Then we can stop wasting effort on applying
>> (untested!) global changes to these files.
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> Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>

I'm fine with this too.

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> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
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>>
>> Does anybody want to argue against that idea?
>>
>> (This came up on IRC a month or so ago, and there seemed to be
>> a consensus that the use case it was originally intended for
>> (x86 darwin binaries on ppc or vice versa? I forget) was now
>> no longer interesting to anybody. I don't have a strong opinion
>> personally but I thought I'd bring the idea up formally here.)
>>
>> -- PMM
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