Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 23:20:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality? Message-ID: <200106070620.f576KUB05343@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:04:16 %2B0200." <90455.991893856@critter>
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> >I don't think it would be much of a practical problem for anyone since
> >the old behvior can be emulated with the new md pretty easily, but
> >you're right that it isn't appropriate to break compatibility in
> >-stable. It's probably possible to retrofit the old behavior into the
> >new code, but I think that's too much evil for too little gain.
>
> Well, I see that we just ripped out the "wd" compat bits, so I guess
> we don't care about ABI/API stability that much in -stable any more...
"We" being who? Your Danish henchman? 8)
Actually, I do recall discussion over 'wd' being end-of-lifed in 4.x. I
suspect that it would make sense to EOL 'mfs' in a similar fashion. I
don't think there's a lot of good sense in pulling it out at an arbitrary
point, though, any more than there was in pulling 'wd' like it was.
--
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to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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