Re: Time to remove COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012, David Holland wrote:
> Now that netbsd-6 has been branched, I think it's time to 
> remove COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART. This entails both the kernel code 
> and some code in disklabel(8) and sysinst. The kernel code 
> has been disabled by default for years; the disklabel(8) code 
> was overlooked at the time and disabled about a year ago (in 
> both current and -5) after several reports of trashed FreeBSD 
> partitions were traced to it.
>
> Does anyone object? It's been a good long time since the 
> partition ID changed.

No objection, but please can it be added to "Features that will be 
removed in the next version" in the netbsd-6 release notes.

--apb (Alan Barrett)