Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:36:18 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom/eli g_eli.c Message-ID: <41206.1170232578@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:36:36 EST." <200701301636.38175.jhb@freebsd.org>
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In message <200701301636.38175.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes: >Something you seem to be missing though is that in general it's nice to not >just endulge in an endless series of hacks in your specific area of the >system. IWBN to at some point devote some time to help fix more general >problems that will benefit the system as a whole rather than adding hacks >that just benefit yourself and require someone else to clean up when they >eventually add the more-architected solution. We are all very busy, but if >everyone just did hacks and never put any effort into improving the general >infrastructure, we'd have a royal mess. Seconded. -- 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.
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