From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 1:44:44 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from garm.bart.nl (garm.bart.nl [194.158.170.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A1437B71A; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:44:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (root@cable.ninth-circle.org [195.38.232.6]) by garm.bart.nl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f2E9iYr75866; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:44:34 +0100 (CET) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (8.11.2/8.11.0) id f2E9iV374923; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:44:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:44:30 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: Doug Barton , Chris Dillon , John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jonathan Lemon Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c if_fxpreg.h if_fxpvar.h Message-ID: <20010314104430.B74704@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <3AAEFD2E.38EE7235@gorean.org> <20010313231736.V78851@prism.flugsvamp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010313231736.V78851@prism.flugsvamp.com>; from jlemon@flugsvamp.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:17:36PM -0600 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20010314 06:30], Jonathan Lemon (jlemon@flugsvamp.com) wrote: >Well, actually, I wanted to bring this into 4.3 as 'nfxp', so that >the old driver would still be the default, but the new driver would >be available for those people who had otherwise non-working cards. > >Jordan didn't feel that this was a good idea, saying that calling >anything nfoo tends to become permanent, and renaming things at a >later date just causes confusion. I agree with Jordan's sentiment in this area. Just think back to the lpt/nlpt/olpt debacle. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai .oUo. asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best D78D D0AD 244D 1D12 C9CA 7152 035C 1138 546A B867 Sweet taste of vindication, It turns to ashes in your mouth... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message