Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 14:25:13 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r257696 - in head: libexec/rbootd share/man/man9 sys/compat/svr4 sys/net sys/sys Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmomwok%2BJSeM%2BVswr2v%2BkV6jJ4=%2BnFQt%2BQWEsOOmnQPBasA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201311051718.26356.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201311051029.rA5ATmmM017799@svn.freebsd.org> <201311051447.52382.jhb@freebsd.org> <20131105204217.GK7577@FreeBSD.org> <201311051718.26356.jhb@freebsd.org>
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[snip] My main worry about this kind of work is that you're just steamrolling through stuff that yes, should be done, but with little warning and no API deprecation schedule. I'd much rather see this stuff handled more formally - we mark the API as deprecated and remove it in the next release. I really don't like seeing steamrolling through the kernel and deprecating APIs with minimal warning and having no (optional) backwards compatibility implementations. That's what made us stand out from Linux - we kept old APIs around as much as we could. Linux wasn't terribly good at this. -adrian
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