[OpenAFS-devel] Splitting out old Linux code

[Anders Magnusson]

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.
>
Hm, wouldn't it be better doing the other way?  Leaving LINUX for 2.4 
and putting newer stuff
in LINUX26 (and in the future LINUX28 etc...)?

-- Ragge

> Thoughts?
>
> Simon.
>
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