From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 12 9:47:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A99614C35 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:47:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA25234; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:45:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Andy Farkas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi tape driver wants an update In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Oct 1999 22:37:46 +0900." <380339AA.FB0D5719@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:45:48 +0200 Message-ID: <25232.939746748@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <380339AA.FB0D5719@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >Matthew Jacob wrote: >> >> This is a harmless message for the moment. I took a look at the new >> make_dev stuff- it's more than a no-brainer to add because there's a lot >> of stuff about supported device nodes, etc... I'll try and get back to >> this after FreeBSDcon. > >Funny, phk's comments led me to believe it's actually easier to use >make_dev() (!= makedev(), btw -- maybe you looked up the wrong >one?). > >And, talking about phk, it is also my impression that it is his >intent to push these changes as fast as he can. He gets strange at >this time of the year, y'know... I think Jordan once posted an >interesting explanation for this phenomenum. :-) "This time of the year" == "This time in the release cycle" If we want to have a somewhat clean line before 4.0 now is the time to push it through, not after the code freeze. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message