Re: libpthread cleanup: L4 port, PowerPC port

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Sat, 4 Aug 2012 15:56:01 +0200,
Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:16:22 +0200, "Neal H. Walfield" <neal@walfield.org> 
> wrote:
> > At Sat, 4 Aug 2012 15:02:46 +0200,
> > Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > > > > * signal/README: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/TODO: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/kill.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/pt-kill-siginfo-np.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/sig-internal.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/sig-internal.h: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/sigaction.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/sigaltstack.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/signal-dispatch.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/signal.h: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/sigpending.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/sigtimedwait.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/sigwaiter.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * signal/sigwaitinfo.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/killpg.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/raise.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/sigaddset.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/sigdelset.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/sigemptyset.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/sigfillset.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/siginterrupt.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/sigismember.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/signal.c: Likewise.
> > > > > * sysdeps/generic/sigwait.c: Likewise.
> > > > 
> > > > I think these are also used by the Viengoos port.  Are you suggesting
> > > > to remove both the L4 and the Viengoos ports or just the L4 port?
> > > 
> > > I only intend to clean up libpthread's master branch (that is, remove its
> > > old L4 port).
> > 
> > Ok.  I still think that the above files are generic and not L4
> > specific.
> 
> Does that mean you'd like to keep them available in the master branch,
> though unused there?  (In principle I'm fine either way, but have a
> tendency towards only having code live in the repositories that is
> actually being used.)

It's generic code.  At least glibc keeps generic code around, if I
recall correctly.  Further, one of the very nice things about this
libpthread is that it is really easy to integrate into a new OS (or
even use in a kernel).  It would be a shame to lose that feature.
But, as I'm not doing the work, you are welcome to evict this code to
make your life easier.

Neal