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Date:      Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:26:31 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: Driver mega-commit ahead. 
Message-ID:  <10086.1046636791@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Mar 2003 12:20:15 PST." <20030302202015.GA546@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> 

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In message <20030302202015.GA546@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar writes
:
>On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:14:13PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> I plan to commit
>> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/cdevsw.patch
>> one of the first days of the week.
>> 
>> Basically, it changes cdevsw initializations to use C99 sparse
>> format, and thereby eliminates 859 lines of redundant defaultvalue
>> initializations.
>
>I thought HEAD was in a slush mode. des' sweep and this sweep seems
>like the kind of changes we don't want at this time. Has this changed
>or did re@ approve it (both cases)?

I can't talk for DES sweep, (although I'll say that it seems like
a step in the right direction for me).

This particular sweep gives os much better cross-branch source
portability and therefore I think it is exactly the kind of thing
we want before the RELENG_5 branch.

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