Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:05:11 -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.4.21.0108161602480.18201-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <5110.997992512@critter>
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108161053090.18201-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
> lian Elischer writes:
>
> >> 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..--
>
> if (!strcmp("DEVFS", "SLICE"))
> return (ECONFUSED);
>
> Julian, you had four years, during which you didn't even manage to
> make half of the commits made to the DEVFS code during that period.
>
> If it is to be counted as my only achivement on -core that I timed
> out SLICE and DEVFS, I'll still be proud of what I did there.
Well you timed them out without askling the developer what he had in the
wings and that was more than impolite, it was stupid, because most of the
shortcomings of devfs and SLICE had been solved and all I was waiting for
was the CAM switchover, so that I didn't have to do everything twice.
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