From owner-cvs-all Sun May 13 23:37:19 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C8D37B424; Sun, 13 May 2001 23:37:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4E6avp16913; Mon, 14 May 2001 08:36:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Greg Lehey Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: DEVFS options have changed (was : cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 15:45:41 +0930." <20010514154541.B17428@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:36:57 +0200 Message-ID: <16911.989822217@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010514154541.B17428@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >>> I don't see a HEADS UP. >> >> The fact that DEVFS became the GENERIC default quite some time ago >> and the fact that our ultimate goal is to make DEVFS standard in 5.0 >> ought to be more than than enough HEADS UP for anybody paying >> attention. > >I disagree. Any change in the config options is worthy of specific >reminder. Most people don't even read cvs logs, because they're not >developers, but this incompatibility will bite them. You're welcome to your opinion. The amount of bitage so far does not back your statement. >> People not paying attention deserve what they get of course. > >This is not a useful attitude. I'm not on core anymore, I don't have to have a useful attitude :-) -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message