Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:25:04 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC.hints Message-ID: <406C96C0.3000702@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040401221929.GC26131@elvis.mu.org> References: <200404012148.i31LmV7E057805@repoman.freebsd.org> <200404011706.49954.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040401221929.GC26131@elvis.mu.org>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [040401 14:05] wrote: > >>On Thursday 01 April 2004 04:48 pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> >>>alfred 2004/04/01 13:48:31 PST >>> >>> FreeBSD src repository >>> >>> Modified files: >>> sys/i386/conf GENERIC.hints >>> Log: >>> Fix booting with ps2 keyboards. >> >>Please revert since you did not get adequate review or discussion for this >>change. > > > Actually we discussed this a long time ago. > > Previously the broken argument was: > > "hot swapping ps2 keyboards is bad, so let's screw data center people." > > After a long drawn out flame fest enough people stood by my position that > we reverted it. > > Now it's "syscons is broken" (or "please cry for my USB keyboard") > so we should go back to screwing data center users. > > I really don't buy it. > > >>Instantly MFC'ing drive by commits is also not very nice. > > > I was just reverting the code to the decided on acceptable behavior. > If you want USB to work then fix syscons, do not break data center > users. > > I'm also rather upset that the atkbd man page does not adequate > describe how to toggle this option without a kernel recompile. > > It's been three years and syscons still hasn't been fixed so that > data center users aren't screwed. This is a matter of fixing syscons > not crippling ps2, so basically go fix syscons don't muck with > atkbd. :) > > thank you, Sorry, this drive-by isn't acceptable right before the 4.10 release cycle. The old behaviour might be broken for data center people, but it is well understood brokeness. Please revert the RELENG_4 change, and we'll discuss the next step. Scott
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