From owner-freebsd-qa Sun Dec 23 23:48:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9167337B419; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBO7kRl83280; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 08:46:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: The Anarcat Cc: Robert Watson , re@freebsd.org, qa@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression tests for possible sysctl kern.disks/libdisk changes/mfc In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:42:21 EST." <20011223234221.GI34708@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 08:46:27 +0100 Message-ID: <83278.1009179987@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20011223234221.GI34708@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org>, The Anarcat write s: > >--7gLe/sNPhR777EPF >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Sun Dec 23, 2001 at 06:25:48PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: >> Jordan, >>=20 >> Can you clarify a couple of things for me? >>=20 >> (2) What are the downsides to not merging this feature: do we lose the >> ability to do something that we might otherwise have? Do things look >> better? > >Just to make things clear, this fix should affect sysinstall whatsoever >and is not designed *for* sysinstall. It's for libh or other apps which >run in user-mode. It affects the order in which disks are displayed in sysinstall as well. It has no other effects on sysinstall. -- 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-qa" in the body of the message