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Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r196358 - in head: share/man/man9 sys/kern sys/sys
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:45:27AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>>
>>> The only use I could think of was exactly what Sam suggested - a DDB
>>> command and that was the only possible use I found.
>>>
>>> I decided to propose removal of this KPI, because nobody decided to use
>>> it for more than 9 years now and this is a good thing to remove unused
>>> code, no?
>> Not during a freeze/right before a release, no.
> 
> Then when? Between 8.3 and 8.4 when some 3rd party modules start to use it?
> 

Was this code getting in the way of anything?  Why are you so insistent
to ignore advice like this?  Please back this out.  You don't
unilateraly own all APIs that ZFS uses, and I saw no call for discussion
on the taskqueue API.

Scott