From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 16 10:51:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B5F37B40C; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:51:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA18441; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:55:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:55:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Greg Lehey , Andrew Kenneth Milton , Michael Lucas , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?)) In-Reply-To: <97180.997950529@critter> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > After 3 years I gave up on the hope that it would ever be fixed > well enough to become politically acceptable. > > After 6 years I removed it. > > A quick script run on the cvs tree paints this picture of number > of commits to src/sys/miscfs/devfs per year: > > julian phk other > 1995 56 3 15 > 1996 20 10 43 > 1997 21 13 16 > 1998 15 2 24 --at this point SOS and PHK delete half of devfs... Both are in core.. Julian feels he has no avenue of recourse and gives up..-- > 1999 6 15 30 > 2000 0 16 8 > 2001 0 1 7 > > -- > 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-current" in the body of the message