From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 21:25:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72AC16B308; Tue, 23 May 2006 21:25:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C831143D7C; Tue, 23 May 2006 21:25:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [10.10.3.185] ([69.15.205.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4NLP11P011172; Tue, 23 May 2006 15:25:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <44737DA5.7010301@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:24:53 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= References: <20060520141209.A2285@free.home.local> <86fyj1kju5.fsf@xps.des.no> <20060523171238.6392afdb@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <867j4clqaj.fsf@xps.des.no> <4473336F.1030900@samsco.org> <864pzgo32x.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <864pzgo32x.fsf@xps.des.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testing: emu10kx driver for Creative sound cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 21:25:17 -0000 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Scott Long writes: > >>The problem is that Alexander wants these sysctls to only be temporary. > > > Temporary measures have a way of becoming permanent, and I can see no > good reason for creating precedent for bad coding practices. > > DES And the recommendation that you are making to him will result in compulsory assignment to permanence of his work. See the exchange in progress between Warner and I. Scott