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Date:      Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:55:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current && vinum problems?)) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108161053090.18201-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <97180.997950529@critter>

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> After 3 years I gave up on the hope that it would ever be fixed
> well enough to become politically acceptable.
> 
> After 6 years I removed it.
> 
> A quick script run on the cvs tree paints this picture of number
> of commits to src/sys/miscfs/devfs per year:
> 
> 		julian		phk		other
> 	1995	56		 3		15
> 	1996	20		10		43
> 	1997	21		13		16
> 	1998	15		 2		24

--at this point SOS and PHK delete half of devfs... Both are in core..
Julian feels he has no avenue of recourse and gives up..--

> 	1999	 6		15		30
> 	2000	 0		16		 8
> 	2001	 0		 1		 7
> 
> -- 
> 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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