From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 18 20:55:49 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 4184037B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 002B143ED8 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:55:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from katana.zip.com.au (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA11644; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:55:22 +1100 Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:56:41 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Mark Murray Cc: Scott Long , Subject: Re: VM_METER no longer defined? In-Reply-To: <200301182133.h0ILXBaX047136@grimreaper.grondar.org> Message-ID: <20030119155237.H16669-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message