From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 28 8:22:31 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C7937B403; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:22:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9SGLoS36610; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:21:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: babkin@FreeBSD.org Cc: Greg Lehey , mjacob@feral.com, Jonathan Lemon , "Andrey A. Chernov" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Causing known breakage (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c subr_disk.c) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:13:31 EST." <3BDC2EAB.A59C7071@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:21:50 +0100 Message-ID: <36608.1004286110@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3BDC2EAB.A59C7071@bellatlantic.net>, Sergey Babkin writes: >I am another one of these many. I believe that almost any kind >of externally visible infrastructure change must be done in a >backwards-compatible way. That is, with providing translation from >the old infrastructure to the new one. In this case new infrastructure was added, and before the author (me) knew off it, people started doing oddball things with it... >> so chronologically rather than to pick on me. > >You active at breaking this rule, so Greg's picking is justified. So if I had mumbled in my commit message, rather than say what it did, I would have gotten off the hook ? F'get it buddy. If this rule is to be enforced, it is applied with an even hand, and not just to me because I happen to walk past this sunday afternoon. >> Actually I think it is a neat thing. If nobody fixes these drivers > >And what exactly is neat about it ? You don't read entire sentences before replying or what, see the rest: >> before 5.0-R we can obviously remove them then because they are >> clearly NWOV[*] material in that case. >> [*] "Not Wanted On Voyage", mark put on luggage which could be put >> in the hold on trans-oceanic ships. >That's a wrong assumption. Well, _you_ think so, I think it is a rather obvious assumption. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message