Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:15:57 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP - change in CDRIOC.*SPEED ioctl units Message-ID: <20021121111557.GC6603@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211202139460.66175-100000@root.org> References: <m3fztvy0p0.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211202139460.66175-100000@root.org>
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Nate Lawson wrote: > I'm not going to debate API since as I said before, the API is > fundamentally limiting. It was written to support one program > (burncd) and thus is overly restrictive. I took the approach of limiting > the MMC set less, not adding another hack. If it's really only used by baseline programs, would not it be better then to kill it altogether than shuffling it from one limited state to another? Some people say that software optimization is complete when there's nothing left to remove. I tend to agree for the maintenance involved. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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