[PATCH 2/4] VAX: drop OBJ_VMS leftovers

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@orcam.me.uk
Wed Jul 31 15:23:01 GMT 2024


On Wed, 31 Jul 2024, Jan Beulich wrote:

> >  ISTM these should be 3-4 separate self-contained patches
> 
> It could be split, yes, but it didn't seem worth it. If we talk about
> "could" here, the (non-existing) target maintainers should long have
> cleaned up.

 Technically the port isn't broken, just suboptimal, and the maintainers 
may only have enough resources to focus on urgent matters.

 I'm not sure if the level of maintenance a given piece of code receives 
is supposed to correlate with the standard of submissions made.  I'd argue 
we'd best keep the same standard everywhere (and for less maintained parts 
it might be especially beneficial to hold to the highest standard, because 
there may be fewer resources available to clean things up if something 
slips through).

 Besides, it does not appear to me that splitting this particular change 
into pieces would be that complex and time consuming.

  Maciej


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