From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 18 13:15: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34FDA37B401; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:15:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from procyon.firepipe.net (procyon.firepipe.net [198.78.66.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A8143ED8; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:15:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by procyon.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 55D6C29B82; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:10:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:10:18 -0800 From: Will Andrews To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: Scott Long , Hiten Pandya , Craig Rodrigues , Will Andrews , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VM_METER no longer defined? Message-ID: <20030118211018.GV30015@procyon.firepipe.net> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Marcus Clarke , Scott Long , Hiten Pandya , Craig Rodrigues , Will Andrews , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org References: <3E284083.3030504@btc.adaptec.com> <1042826526.328.24.camel@gyros> <20030117182610.GR30015@procyon.firepipe.net> <20030117232821.GA5237@attbi.com> <3E28943E.3000702@btc.adaptec.com> <20030118142031.GA96568@unixdaemons.com> <3E29B70C.9070500@btc.adaptec.com> <1042923720.7820.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1042923720.7820.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:02:00PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Ok, I agree that the naming could cause confusion since there is a > > vmmeter struct and a vmtotal struct. However, the Release Engineering > > policy that was set out at the start of RELENG_5_0 is that public API > > changes need review. I'm not saying that those reviews won't be > > approved, but we want to keep the pain involved in 5.0->5.1 as low > > as possible. This is causing pain with several high-profile ports. > > > > In my opinion, the inconsistency in VM_METER was annoying, but > > not enough to justify breaking an interface that has been existence > > since _1994_. Dude, that is _9_ years. If you'd like the name to > > change, lets hold of for RELENG_5 to happen. Please back out the > > name change. > > Scott, the API change does not exist in RELENG_5_0. This change only > went into HEAD. ...which will later become 5.1 and RELENG_5, yes? Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message