Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:07:30 +0900 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> To: Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r205014 - in head: . sys/amd64/amd64 sys/amd64/conf sys/amd64/include sys/amd64/linux32 sys/compat/freebsd32 sys/compat/ia32 sys/conf sys/fs/procfs sys/ia64/conf sys/ia64/ia64 sys/ia64/... Message-ID: <43586297-42AF-46F7-9B55-6A9BADD78752@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <e71790db1003121853y48d29bf3ta5701669069d7618@mail.gmail.com> References: <201003111449.o2BEn6QY069179@svn.freebsd.org> <e71790db1003120436u34370f40x64a72da41893a39a@mail.gmail.com> <3F878223-7A35-4A27-9DA8-92239C635EC1@FreeBSD.org> <e71790db1003121853y48d29bf3ta5701669069d7618@mail.gmail.com>
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On 13 Mar 2010, at 11:53, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> > wrote: >> >> On 12 Mar 2010, at 21:36, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn >>> <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Author: nwhitehorn >>>> Date: Thu Mar 11 14:49:06 2010 >>>> New Revision: 205014 >>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205014 >>>> >>>> Log: >>>> Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86 >>>> platforms, >>>> for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the >>>> COMPAT_IA32 >>>> option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from >>>> MI >>>> parts >>>> of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to >>>> support >>>> big-endian platforms. >>> >>> COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily >>> interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like >>> "COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful. >> >> There's a lengthy discussion about this on another mailing list. >> >> This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who >> provided >> valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone else's. > > So the user - the person to whom the software is made, theoretically - > don't have the right to disagree when he sees a change that looks > confusing "because the committers's time is too valuable". Sorry, I > was not aware of that policy. Please forgive my audacity. Keep in mind > that we, the users, are a bunch of idiots that don't like to become > astonished by sudden changes in the meaning of the symbols that we use > to see. Thanks God we have you, the holly committers to protect us > from our own ignorance. You said that, I didn't. Please refrain from distorting my own words. If you want something discussed, do it on the other list and, please, do it with a grown up attitude because, quite frankly, what you wrote doesn't make sense. Thank you, -- Rui Paulo
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