From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 19 22:33:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C99C37B40F for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:33:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5K5XIr03420; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:33:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: dima@unixfreak.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing broken DEVFS from -stable? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:11:11 PDT." <20010619211111K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:33:18 +0200 Message-ID: <3418.993015198@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm all for it, but a couple of people complained that they were using it when I fiddled the knobs for it. Poul-Henning In message <20010619211111K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, Jordan Hubbard writes: >It certainly sounds like a good idea to me. If nothing else, it will >make the devfs issue much more clearly a -current only thing. > >- Jordan > >From: Dima Dorfman >Subject: Removing broken DEVFS from -stable? >Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:46:50 -0700 > >> Hi folks, >> >> As I'm sure most people on this list know, the [broken] DEVFS in >> -stable has no relation to the [working] one in -current. However, >> since the one in -current does work and is widely in use, some -stable >> users have tried to use the one in -stable, which obviously doesn't >> work. >> >> Would anyone object to removing the broken one from -stable? All it's >> good for is foot-shooting and taking up space on user's hard drives >> (this isn't a big deal, but the download might be). >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dima Dorfman >> dima@unixfreak.org >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message