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Date:      Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:56:41 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: VM_METER no longer defined? 
Message-ID:  <20030119155237.H16669-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200301182133.h0ILXBaX047136@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, 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).

No.  The man page still documents only VM_METER, and other BSDs still have
only VM_METER.

Bruce


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