Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 03:08:17 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Thanks, Core Team Message-ID: <70985.914810897@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:25:31 %2B1030." <19981228122531.C12346@freebie.lemis.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <19981228122531.C12346@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >On Sunday, 27 December 1998 at 17:45:37 -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 > >Sure, but that's not what I'm talking about. I've been gathering a >lot of information about KLDs, and I've been meaning to move some >time. But until this morning there was nothing to indicate that LKMs >were going away in a hurry. It's interesting that recent events >surprised you too, though. Notice my friends (and foes) that we have less than 3 weeks to get the tree into a shape which we're going to be STUCK with for at least a year in the form of the monster which drains our energies: "-STABLE" We don't want to carry all this old stuff around for another year... That is why something had to happen, and it had to happen NOW, not after several weeks of fruitless flamefests in the mailing lists! -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?70985.914810897>