From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 17 9:46:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B264637B40E for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:46:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7HGken23408; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:46:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?)) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:00:17 PDT." Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:46:40 +0200 Message-ID: <23406.998066800@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message , Ju lian Elischer writes: > > >On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > Julian Elischer writes: >> > >> > >Well you timed them out without askling the developer what he had in the >> > >wings and that was more than impolite, it was stupid, because most of the >> > >shortcomings of devfs and SLICE had been solved and all I was waiting for >> > >was the CAM switchover, so that I didn't have to do everything twice. > >you don't even think it was implolite? The only thing I found really impolite was that the old-core left the thing hanging in the air for several years. It's OK to have things hanging in the air if it is done on purpose, but it is certainly not OK if it hangs there as function of a somebody-elses-problem field like in this case. I certainly didn't find it any more impolite than committing a barely working or even non-working prototype into the CVS tree and then abandonning it once it "worked OK for my immediate needs". -- 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