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Date:      Tue, 05 Jun 2001 18:33:17 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality? 
Message-ID:  <70325.991758797@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2001 01:31:49 PDT." <20010605013148.A49246@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <20010605013148.A49246@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:46:18PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>> Is there any reason not to MFC the new md(4) functionality
>
>Zero reason not to.

Others see it differently, it would seriously break a lot of
people who are using -stable in embedded applications.

If we have abandoned the "no changes to API or ABI in -stable"
paradigm, it would be a good idea, but it serious rains on that
rule...


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