PATCH: disable LINUXTHREADS_OLD in menuconfig.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Sep 30 03:26:05 UTC 2008


On Monday 29 September 2008 11:04:27 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:36:32PM +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> >On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:57:20 -0500
> >
> >Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> >> I'd like to apply the following small patch as a start on at least
> >> deprecating the hell out of LINUXTHREADS_OLD.  All it does is stop it
> >> showing up in menuconfig, and make the symbol default to n.
> >>
> >> We really do need to get down to one pthreads implementation before
> >> we start adding nptl-threads, and getting the new we have a better
> >> chance of maintaining actually widely tested is an important part of
> >> that.
> >>
> >> Comments?
> >
> >It will remove threads support for AVR32 architecture, so I would say
> >no to apply it.
> >
> >I agree that we should aim for all architectures to have NPTL, but only
> >after all the architectures actually are working with this thread
> >library IMHO.
>
> agree.
> Rob, if you want to deprecate linuxthreads.old after the 0.9.30 release
> then please go to the NPTL branch and add support for i386, powerpc,
> m68k etc, etc either against nptl or linuxthreads.new.

I think you're confusing NPTL with linxthreads.new.

I'm happy to push for deprecating linuxthreads.new if nobody's ever used it 
that has a better chance of success.  Neither pthreads implementation is NPTL 
or has anything to do with other SVN forks, I don't know why people keep 
confusing 'em...

Rob



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