From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 18 23:22:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6059D37B402 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:22:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020219072229.YFGI2951.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org> for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:22:29 +0000 Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g1J7MSs35786 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:22:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27743A9A; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:22:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch sets to date and timing tests with Giant out of userret. In-Reply-To: <200202190715.g1J7F0158985@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:22:28 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020219072228.C27743A9A@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :So, John's last few months of work is junk then, is it? > : > :Cheers, > :-Peter > :-- > :Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au > > I'll tell you what is junk... patches for things like getuid() sitting > in P4 (whether instrumented or not). That's junk. > > I'll tell what is NOT junk. What isn't junk are things like John's more > complex patch to kern_descrip.c. There's real work involved there > that can be salvaged, and which can be committed to the -current > piecemeal if Giant is properly instrumented. > > The biggest problem is that all of this stuff is sitting in P4 and none > of it belongs there. With all due respect, bullshit! The p4 tree exists only as an alternative to people having large uncommitted diffs sitting in checked out cvs trees. Mailing patches between people trying to work in parallel is a bigger waste of time. That is inherently single threaded. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message