Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:52:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Meta: explain what where when? (was Re: userland accesstodevicesis moving!) Message-ID: <3EF2A12D.58A9524E@mindspring.com> References: <20030618174733.GC10127@over-yonder.net> <20030618190032.GG10127@over-yonder.net> <3EF1617F.C1EC5C12@mindspring.com> <20030619190346.GT10127@over-yonder.net>
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"Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > [ Bunches of in-depth detail-overview snipped ] > > The point of the exercise is not "marketing blurb". The point of the > exercise is to provide a hint so those of us whose heads only work in > userland-mode have a clue what this change is expected to mean to us. The author of a patch *ALWAYS* expects that things will be better than they were, and that *NO ONE* uses any feature that they want to deprecate, and *SOMETIMES* doesn't even agree that the things being deprecated were in fact features in the first place. The last case is the one which worries me most. -- Terry
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