From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 23:03:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1614D16A4CE; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:03:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.76.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA9143D1D; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au) Received: from robbins.dropbear.id.au (210.50.86.78) by smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.024) id 402CF87000D72CD0; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:03:45 +1100 Received: by robbins.dropbear.id.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 70DF641BD; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:04:25 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:04:25 +1100 From: Tim Robbins To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20040325070425.GA23926@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <200403241750.46400.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403241750.46400.jhb@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: "cvs-all@FreeBSD.org" cc: "src-committers@FreeBSD.org" cc: "cvs-src@FreeBSD.org" cc: David O'Brien cc: Doug Barton cc: Julian Elischer cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.bin/doscmd AsyncIO.c AsyncIO.h Makefile Makefile.dos PROBLEMS ParseBuffer.c README README.booting_dos bios.c callback.c callback.h cmos.c com.h config.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:03:55 -0000 On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:50:46PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 05:35 pm, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > I think most people heard "tjr assented to waiting" as the end of the > > > > discussion. > > > > > > > > remember emails can get re-orderred.. > > > > > > This is where a good threaded mail reader helps. :) Seriously though, > > > is there a strong, well-reasoned objection to the action by des, or can > > > we let this one go? As I said, my opinion is biased, but I don't see any > > > harm here on the tech side, nor do I see any bad faith on des' part. > > > > I don't think that, now that it's done, we should bring it back, but I > > do think that he got a different impression about the conversation that > > I got. > > Yes. I honestly don't care enough about doscmd(8) to want any changes from > the current situation, but my reading of the thread was that the consensus > was, if anything, to wait until 6.0. Upon re-reading the thread, I do see > that while DES did say he would provide patches to do what he did, he never > sent a mail saying 'Ok, here are the patches I'm going to commit on foo day' > whereas Tim did sent out a RFC before doing actual action. Given the amount > of pushback that Tim's request received, it seems to me it would have been > good form to have at least posted something to the effect of 'Ok, I've got > the patches do this now and am going to do so.' I mainly agreed to wait because I was sick of arguing. I still firmly believe that doscmd has no place in the base system of -current in 2004. Tim