From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 13:11:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D27416A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:11:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B0543D1F for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:11:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [172.29.253.253] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.6p3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i1HLBGxe080152; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:11:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@127.0.0.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200402171938.i1HJckEA005628@dee.skynet.be> References: <200402162041.i1GKfV4s056904@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> <200402171938.i1HJckEA005628@dee.skynet.be> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:11:01 +0100 To: Randy Bush From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Quincey Koziol cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Subject: Re: Aligning GENERIC with NOTES? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:11:21 -0000 At 8:38 PM +0100 2004/02/17, Randy Bush wrote: > pola. this is purely cosmetic. please don't break my ediff. POLA is actually the principle you are violating most by taking this stance. You and I both know that this is -CURRENT, and is the place where big changes are made. This is the place where this kind of change would be made, if ever. It is the less experienced/less knowledgeable people for whom we should be concerned about with regards to POLA. And they would most likely be least astonished by a GENERIC kernel description that is well organized and makes sense, especially when compared to a larger NOTES file. Breaking your ediff is a minor problem, if the result is that many people coming to FreeBSD will be less likely to be confused by the old cruftage left laying around. If you don't want anything to change, then tracking -CURRENT is a really bad idea. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)