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To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality? 
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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:10:05 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <20010606095600.A37378@sunbay.com>, Ruslan Ermilov writes:
>On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20010605102017.E48590@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>> >On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:33:17PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >> Others see it differently, it would seriously break a lot of
>> >> people who are using -stable in embedded applications.
>> >
>> >Can you expand on this?  I assume you know we are not talking about
>> >disabling vn(4).
>> 
>> We already have a previous form of md(4) in stable, -current's md(4)
>> is not compatible with that older version.
>> 
>And that older version doesn't even work (at least when loaded as the
>module):

While true, it is not really relevant to the issue of API/ABI
breakage in -stable...

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