From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 27 17:50:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06106 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:50:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com [205.152.173.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06101 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:50:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ck@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com) Received: (from ck@localhost) by ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id UAA22657; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:50:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981227205032.J1333@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:50:32 -0500 From: Christian Kuhtz To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Thanks, Core Team References: <19981228112851.Y12346@freebie.lemis.com> <12439.914809537@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <12439.914809537@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 05:45:37PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 05:45:37PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 1. LKMs are gone. > > 2. This was decided by the core team. > > 3. Nobody else was informed. > > Actually, while some of the recent events came as much as a surprise > to core as anyone else, the transition from LKMs to KLD modules is not > and should not come as a surprise to anyone. We've been talking about > it for ages now in -current and the only way you could possibly fail > to be informed about this transition would be if you had simply > deleted every mail received from -current for at least the last 3 > months. Jordan, And three months is considered to be a suitable transition period? With all due respect, give me a break. *hrmph* If the old facility still works, why not leave both enabled? Does it hurt anything in the meantime? Developments take time, and particularly since very few of us actually get paid to do any work on this source if find a period of 3 months a relatively short recoding/"forklift" period. Cheers, Chris -- Frisbeetarianism, n.: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message