From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 10 13:24:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (brea.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C689937B417; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:24:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCF22DDF22; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:24:24 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fBALOJx01443; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:24:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:24:14 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: Nik Clayton Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux Message-ID: <20011210152414.A1367@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com References: <20011209100855.A22942@sheol.localdomain> <20011209084620.V14858-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20011209111523.A23357@sheol.localdomain> <20011209175137.B13554@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20011209121703.A23726@sheol.localdomain> <20011210080032.A4215@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011210080032.A4215@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:00:32AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Dec 10, at 08:00 AM, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:17:03PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > Seems to me that were I to do this, and I would, it would only be as viable > > as the patches themselves. That is, I (and any contributors) would have to > > be able to stay abreast of those things going on in -STABLE that could get > > backported to previous releases ("could" being a significant word here). > > Well, yeah. That's pretty much a pre-requisite. > > Doesn't mean that you need 100% coverage though. If you produce > something that only gets in 80% of the patches that could be applied > back that's still better than what we have now. And it makes it easier > for someone else to help out with the missing 20%. Huh? You completely list me with this. Are you trying to say that some feature of a patch that applies to just the last three of four prior releases is OK, 'cuz right now none are (except for security fixes to RELENG_(current - 1))? > > So far, I've made three patchfiles that can be applied to 4.2REL and 4.3REL. > > Not exactly the repertoire one would need to garner interest and momentum. > > It's a start. What's the URL? You're kidding, right? I only started thinking about doing this yesterday! The patches are sitting right here, in $(HOME)/projects. > N > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ > > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message