Peter Memishian wrote:
> I don't understand what the "problem" is with the way Roland has > implemented this? Is it a _big_ problem - or is is simply your > personal preference?

Roger (cc'd on this email) is the right person to engage for the
philosophical argument for it -- I am merely asking for consistency
with the way the rest of our Makefiles work.  The changes necessary
to provide that consistency are minor and should take less than an
hour (at most) to implement.

Again, it is not about personal preference.  It's about consistency and
simplicity.


+1. And, I hope we are not going to sacrifice quality considerations in OpenSolaris just because the work is being done by unpaid volunteers. I've worked on Solaris both in paid and unpaid capacities, and I really, really don't want to degenerate into the "oh well, its good enough" approach.

In fact, as a result of this, I have spent significant time (off the clock) cleaning up some of the ethernet drivers so that they are vastly cleaner ... the ones I've touched pass lint (with no special LINTTAGS anymore), pass cstyle, and have a lot of duplication and dead #ifdef code removed. Nobody who uses the drivers will ever notice, but from absolute code quality improvement standpoint, the improvement is significant, IMO.

   -- Garrett

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