From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 24 11:36:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB7337B401; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D9543EB2; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:36:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6693C2A8A5; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:36:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: phk@freebsd.org Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. In-Reply-To: <3127.1043436117@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:36:18 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030124193618.6693C2A8A5@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG phk@freebsd.org wrote: > In message <20030124190057.91A3B2A7EA@canning.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: > > >> There is one errata point (can't rewrite BSD boot code on a disk > >> which is in use) which I am testing a patch for. > >> > >> I know of no bugs at present. > > > >BTW; assuming these are taken care of, do we really gain anything by > >waiting so long? > > Some nights sleep before all hell breaks loose ? :-) > > >Frankly I'd rather have an extra month focussed on this > >code to shake out any remaining quirks and make sure that we have all the > >bases covered and that we actually deal with any reasons why folks might be > >using NO_GEOM and not letting us know. It would give us an extra month to > >solve those before the next release/branch/whatever. > > I personally wanted to give 5.0-R a chance in the wild, just to see > if somebody came up and said "You've busted all PC's in Elbonia" > or similar overlooked details. > > Considering that there has not been a any reports on GEOM/DEVFS > which have filtered through to me yet means that I am open to a > more aggresive timeline. > > Show of hands ? > > When should I remove NODEVFS and NO_GEOM from sys/conf ? IMHO, some time over the next few days. This is easy to undo if there is a showstopper that turns up. > When should I commit the consequent unifdef of 2865 lines ? IMHO, some time early february. You may like to get the TRB to sign off on this as a CYA. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "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-arch" in the body of the message