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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Adding new media types to if_media.h
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 08:25:59PM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
A> [snip]
A> 
A> I think Mike's approach is good - it makes it easy to MFC to 10.2
A> since there's extended lifecycle stuff to do there - and then we can
A> plan out how do the "betterer" fix after it's landed and churned
A> things.

... and we will be ought to support the "betterer" fix along with
the "not so betterer" for a very long time.

The rock on which we split in this argument is that some developers
write their code for stable/x and then forward-port it to head,
focused on quality of result for stable/x; while other developers
do the opposite: write code to head, then consider or not consider
merging it stable/x.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.