[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH 1/2] linux < 2.4 cleanup

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 7 May 2005, Andres Salomon wrote:

>> I agree.  We should try to keep the macros consistent.  Furthermore,
>> __ia64__ and AFS_IA64_LINUX20_ENV have somewhat different meanings.
>> One means (gcc && ia64), while the other means (linux && ia64).  I
>
> gcc, or something that emulates gcc, is a requirement for compiling the
> Linux kernel.  I don't think there's any problem with including it in
> the kernelspace portion of the openafs driver.  My patch was only going
> to touched the LINUX specific directories, as it does mean (linux &&
> ia64).

That's still sort of crappy. Why not keep what we have, but look for ways 
to continue to move to ifdefs by function/action/feature instead of 
hardcoded by system?