Subject: Re: Upcoming kernel changes
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/31/1996 11:01:39
On Jan 31,  7:29am, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Upcoming kernel changes

| On Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:48:43 -0500 
|  christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
| 
|  > I am planning to start the integration of all the changes I've made to the
|  > MI portion of the kernel to pass "gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes" last August.
| 
| Cool ... I wish we could have gotten more of this done before 1.1, but 
| DDB was just too hariy that close to the release :-)
| 
|  > After I am done with the MI portion of the code, I'll fix the sparc and
|  > the 386 portion of the code. at that point I'll add
|  > "-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes" to the default kernel compilation flags.
| 
| What order to you plan to attack things in?

kern, vm, ddb, *fs, net*, dev, compat, sys

Sys is left for last, because if I add the missing prototypes before I fix
the function definitions, things will break.

Of course this is not an absolute sequence because of circular dependencies.

christos