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Date:      Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:10:18 -0800
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com>, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com>, Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VM_METER no longer defined?
Message-ID:  <20030118211018.GV30015@procyon.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <1042923720.7820.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <XFMail.20030117052330.conrads@cox.net> <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>

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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

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