From owner-cvs-all Mon Sep 14 13:33:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12049 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:33:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12001; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:33:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA25852; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:27:44 +0200 (CEST) To: Mike Smith cc: Eivind Eklund , =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/dev/slice disklabel.c mbr.c slice.4 slice.h slice_base.c slice_device.c slices.thought src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/i386/conf LINT src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c src/sys/i386/isa fd.c wd.c src/sys/isofs/cd9660 .. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:28:14 PDT." <199809142028.NAA00981@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:27:44 +0200 Message-ID: <25850.905804864@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199809142028.NAA00981@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> > Log: >> > Remove the SLICE code. >> > This clearly needs alot more thought, and we dont need this to hunt >> > us down in 3.0-RELEASE. >> >> IMO, this commit does not belong in -current, but in RELENG_3_0. > >I'd have to say this looks more like a personal shot at Julian than >anything actually useful. I don't know where "clearly needs alot more >thought" comes from; some discussion and input would have been much >more useful than this. Now, now... 1. I was the one who if not invented, then at least implemented the first prototype of this stuff. "Geometry" was the code word. 2. I didn't complete it for various personal reasons, and left it hanging there. 3. Julian wanted to pick it up from there, and I handed my stuff over, and told him not to make another "DEVFS" saga out of it. 4. He did. 5. Core agreed that unless it were fully functional by the time of 3.0, it would be yanked. 6. It has been yanked. 7. The good news is that I may have the time to pick it up this winter. Then I'll pick up from where I left it, which would mean a general simplification of code, rather than the now just removed stuff which complicated things. 8. If anybody feels like helping, please apply in private email. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal