[4781] in Athena Bugs
Re: VAX 6.4R: kernel config files (Removing Ingres)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Tue Apr 17 18:21:46 1990
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 18:21:29 -0400
From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
All active Ingres servers are running on VS-II configurations which
do not have the Ingres defines in them. They all use the user-level
lock-manager, which means that the kernel code is obsolete. There
are 3 active Ingres servers (according to Operations): career
services, newares, and agamemnon. Moira also does not use this
kernel code, so the code can be removed.
Actually the Moira server (SMS.MIT.EDU) *does* depend on the kernel
resident lock driver. However it isn't unreasonable to have a special
kernel for it. I have no problem with removing the Ingres kernel
support from the default workstation kernel, however it should remain
"supported" in the sense that all new releases should be checked for
correct operation when the lock driver is linked into the kernel, at
least until such time that *nothing* Athena depends upon depends upon
it [did that sentence have enough "depends upon"'s in it for you ;-)]
-Jeff
