Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:30:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Chris Knight <fbsd-stb@ghostwheel.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum in 2.2-stable, but broken? Message-ID: <19990203083036.N1179@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1558.917973974@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:46:14AM -0800 References: <19990202190745.C76680@freebie.lemis.com> <1558.917973974@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Tuesday, 2 February 1999 at 8:46:14 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> On Tuesday, 2 February 1999 at 0:14:54 -0800, Chris Knight wrote: >>> I noticed that vinum was introduced into 2.2.8 within the past week or so, >>> but it isn't compiled in a 'make world', and it doesn't compile directly. >>> Is is safe to assume that this made in into 2.2-stable by accident? >> >> Well, not completely. It was introduced deliberately, but an accident >> happened during the commit, and the modules ended up in the wrong >> directory. I was going to leave them there, but something has gone >> funny with the Makefile (it had a dependency for vnode_if.[ch], but >> doesn't build them). Since it currently doesn't hurt, and I don't >> have time to look at what's really going on, I have just left it as it >> is. If somebody else wants to look at why it doesn't build (please?), >> I'd be grateful. > > Hmmmm. This is giving me the feeling that it's something which > probably just needs to go back out again. Many people have asked me > why such a comparatively large change occurred in a branch which > has already been scheduled for maintenance only and end-of-lifed, > and I haven't had a good answer for them yet. The "well, didn't > seem like it hurt much" argument is about the best one I've come > up with and it's kinda weak. I'd be a lot more comfortable > if vinum just disappeared again entirely from 2.2, thanks. There's > nothing that says you can't provide a patch file somewhere for > those 2.2.x folks who really want such a new feature. Well, a number of people asked me for it, and it seemed straightforward enough at the time, but I hadn't reckoned with the structural problems which blew the job out of proportion. Does anybody still want it there? Otherwise I'll take it out again, as Jordan suggests. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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