[OpenAFS-devel] Splitting out old Linux code

[Alberto Mancini]

In my opinion this is a great idea.

 		Alberto.


On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Simon Wilkinson wrote:

> I'm in the process of making some fairly deep changes to the Linux cache 
> manager, in the search of more performance, and I'm worried about the 
> implications for the 2.4 kernel series. Rather than scattering the code with 
> yet more #ifdefs, I was wondering how people would feel about the following 
> proposal.
>
> We create a new directory, src/afs/LINUX24 which is used for builds on 2.4 
> and earlier kernels. This gets a copy of the current src/afs/LINUX, stripped 
> of everything that's 2.6 only. src/afs/LINUX then has all of the code that's 
> only needed for 2.4 and earlier removed from it. This should both tidy up the 
> Linux directories, and make it less likely that we'll inadvertently break 2.4 
> going forwards.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Simon.
>
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