Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:57:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Feature removal without replacement (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/conf NOTES) Message-ID: <20020410145747.C22430@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4868.1018415500@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20020410143519.B22430@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4868.1018415500@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wednesday, 10 April 2002 at 7:11:40 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020410143519.B22430@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" > writes: >> On Wednesday, 10 April 2002 at 6:59:53 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> In message <20020410095141.M9535@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" w >>> rites: >>> >>>> Why do we need to cut Uesrconfig out until there's some replacement? >>> >>> Suggest you revisit the cvs log for a blow by blow account. >> >> Which one? > > The one you appearantly missed two years ago when userconfig > disappeared. And you expect me to know that's the one you mean? > And why can't you summarize. > > I could, except this happened nearly two years ago, so I would have > expected that you had noticed by now: > >> revision 1.260 >> date: 2000/06/13 22:28:46; author: peter; state: Exp; lines: +40 -46 >> Borrow phk's axe and apply the next stage of config(8)'s evolution. >> <snip> >> userconfig will be rewritten to use this style interface one day and will >> move to /boot/userconfig.4th or something like that. I don't see any evidence there that this meant that userconfig was going away. >>>> Specifically, what do people do when they're installing the system >>>> from CD on an old ISA machine? It looks like they're stuck. >>> >>> They uses the loader and their hints file. >> >> Is that documented? This looks very much like hand-washing to me. > > And your email sounds like somebody who is a little too jumpy about > my commits and who can't be bothered to check his own facts... Well, that's what I was doing. And yes, since it hasn't been documented anywhere (not even in the commit log), I'm a little jumpy. We're still telling people in the documentation that Userconfig is functional, and I believe it still is in -STABLE. But there's nothing in UPDATING, and to me it looks like you've decided we don't need it any more. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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