From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 25 16:17:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29FE37B510 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17037; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:16:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:16:56 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Warner Losh Cc: Brooks Davis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shim Code #error needed Message-ID: <20000325161656.A15487@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20000325155611.A18633@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <200003252043.NAA73526@harmony.village.org> <20000325155611.A18633@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <200003260004.RAA75925@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <200003260004.RAA75925@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:04:11PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:04:11PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20000325155611.A18633@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Brooks Davis writes: > : I like it. The new entry in UPDATING should help, but it's easy to > : forget and the current errors aren't very obvious. > > Well, I *WROTE* the entry in UPDATING (or at least committed it, I > can't recall now). The only person I can think of that should know > better more than me would be Peter Wemm who committed the changes :-) I know you commited it. Actually, I wrote it. I wasn't suggesting that you should have read UPDATING. That would have been rather silly. I was really just saying that while the message in UPDATING will help, adding these #errors is a very good idea because just knowing about the problem isn't quite sufficient to avoid it. As both of use seem to have proved. ;-) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message