Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: delete darwin-user ?

[Anthony Liguori]

On 04/12/2012 06:57 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> So, the darwin-user/ subdirectory is officially Orphan, and looking
> at the git history the last commit to it which wasn't either "apply
> a global change", "fix cppcheck/spelling error/similar autodetected
> nit" or "duplicate a linux-user fix into darwin-user and bsd-user"
> was way back in 2009, perhaps even earlier.
>
> If in three years nobody's cared enough about it to manage to get
> a single darwin-user specific change into the tree, my suggestion
> would be that it is in practice dead and we should make that
> official by deleting it. Then we can stop wasting effort on applying
> (untested!) global changes to these files.

Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Does anybody want to argue against that idea?
>
> (This came up on IRC a month or so ago, and there seemed to be
> a consensus that the use case it was originally intended for
> (x86 darwin binaries on ppc or vice versa? I forget) was now
> no longer interesting to anybody. I don't have a strong opinion
> personally but I thought I'd bring the idea up formally here.)
>
> -- PMM