From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 09:13:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3A2106564A; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC028FC12; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:13:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id LAA13997; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:13:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1RxxPI-0003ul-9D; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:13:40 +0200 Message-ID: <4F3CC8A5.3030107@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:13:09 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120202 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: <201202160511.q1G5BZNk099785@svn.freebsd.org> <20120216181210.K1423@besplex.bde.org> <4F3CC40D.4000307@freebsd.org> <4F3CC5C4.7020501@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F3CC5C4.7020501@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Eitan Adler , Bruce Evans Subject: Re: svn commit: r231814 - in head/sys: kern sys X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:13:44 -0000 on 16/02/2012 11:00 Andriy Gapon said the following: > on 16/02/2012 10:53 Julian Elischer said the following: >> Bruce, this is a good example of a legitimate gripe going un-noticed because >> you didn't shout loud enough at the right time, at the right people. >> It's been about 20 years since we started working on this but I've finally >> come to the point of saying that we need you to do more when you see problems. >> object officially if you think things should be backed out! >> >> your reasons here seem sound, so it's hard to see why you haven't been more >> public about it. > > Just for the record: Bruce and I voiced opinions against the commit when it went > in after a rather short notice for such an important thing. The opinions > can be found in the archives of these lists. To be more precise: s/opinions against/concerns about behavior in the edge cases/. For me personally the immediate benefits in the common situations outweighed the problems in the edge cases, although I still believe that we can get the former without sacrifices in the latter. -- Andriy Gapon