Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:55:48 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. Message-ID: <19068.1042660548@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:48:49 PST." <19a601c2bccf$1fdf3850$5a557f42@errno.com>
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In message <19a601c2bccf$1fdf3850$5a557f42@errno.com>, "Sam Leffler" writes: >> All the central developers I have talked to agree that this is the >> direction we are going. Unless I am Terrybly mistaken, only the >> speed of adoption is up for discussion at this point, the direction >> is not. > >You and I talked about this briefly so I'll just voice my opinion publicly. I very much appreciate your input, private as well as publically. It was partly because of our discussion I decided to take this public so we can get the issue resolved. >I believe changes of this sort should wait until _after_ 5.1 is cut. This >assumes that 5.1 is the "performance and stability" release that compels >people to move production machines to a 5.x code base. If 5.1 is this kind >of release then I'd want developers to focus their energy on performance and >stability issues and not on changes of this sort. My concern is that >yanking this code may expose problems that destabilize the system. While >this certainly needs to be done I would like to see 5.1 come out quickly; so >anything that might cause a slip should be considered carefully. I don't really see how this can jeoparidize 5.1: All we do is remove a couple of badly supported functions at the administrative level: Not one single .c or .h file needs to be touched, only sys/conf and sys/i386/conf/LINT will be affected. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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