Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:11:01 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: Aligning GENERIC with NOTES? Message-ID: <p0600200ebc58333220ea@[172.29.253.253]> In-Reply-To: <200402171938.i1HJckEA005628@dee.skynet.be> References: <200402162041.i1GKfV4s056904@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> <xzpznbiyc4z.fsf@dwp.des.no> <p06002004bc56f22c9401@[172.29.253.253]> <200402171938.i1HJckEA005628@dee.skynet.be>
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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, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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