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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:07:18 -0700
From:      Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        wine-freebsd@hub.org, Kris Moore <krismoore@comcast.net>, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_thr.c syscalls.master src/sys/sys
Message-ID:  <200708201207.19122.matt@ixsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <1639123F05401A4F2A1C3F33@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <200708160526.l7G5Qg0b008022@repoman.freebsd.org> <46C9E2A7.8030202@samsco.org> <1639123F05401A4F2A1C3F33@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Monday 20 August 2007 12:01 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> --On Monday, August 20, 2007 12:51:19 -0600 Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
>
> wrote:
> > I'm official out of this discussion.  For the record, I have a lot of
> > respect for the PC-BSD guys and I'm very happy that they are doing this
> > work, I was just trying to provide some guidance so that this doesn't
> > turn into a bad hack that we regret years from now.  But whatever, it's
> > quite obvious that my input is unwelcome.  The subtle and not so subtle
> > attacks from you and Robert really aren't warranted at all.  Please drop
> > me from all future emails on this subject.  Thanks.
>
> Just for the record here, I think that Scott did bring up a very valid
> point in what he had said ... Kris did mention 'PC-BSD including it even =
if
> FreeBSD didn't' (or words to that effect), and Scott's response was only
> meant (at least the way I had read it) to bring us back into focus that we
> are better to come up with a BSD solution vs risking further forking of
> code ...
>
> Please note that in all of this dicussion, it is only been recent that
> someone mentioned a 'kld solution', which I think would be cool ...

PC-BSD definitely doesn't want to fork. Kris just meant that he'd include t=
he=20
patches until a better solution, such as a kld in -CURRENT, was found.

=2Dmatt

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