From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 18 13:41:23 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 DBB1C37B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:41:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6336F43EB2 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott_long@btc.adaptec.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0ILfEv26927; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20888; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:41:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.adaptec.com (hollin [10.100.253.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19769; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:41:05 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E29C9DD.3050507@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:40:45 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Murray Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VM_METER no longer defined? References: <200301182133.h0ILXBaX047136@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <200301182133.h0ILXBaX047136@grimreaper.grondar.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mark Murray wrote: > [ Very large SNIP ] > > Scott Long wrote: > > >I'm fully aware of that. As I state in the previous email, I'd like > to see > >5.0->5.1 happen as smoothly as possible. For background, go re-read > >my email to developers@ when the RELENG_5_0 branch happened. > > > Fair enough. > > > >Also, it's common practice to deprecate public interfaces for a period > >of time > >before removing them. Hiten's change doesn't do that either. > > > Is David O'Brien's commit sufficient to fix this? it looks to me like > it provides a good deprecation route (BOTH symbols). a line like #warning "VM_METER is deprecated and will be removed on kluctember 43, 2861" would be nice to, of course. =-) Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message