Subject: Re: Please Revert newlock2
To: der Mouse <mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/21/2007 09:57:05
I'm agreeing with Mouse.

It should be possible to leave  "M:N" as an compile option, for those,
like Bucky, who work with it.

Zafer.



2007/2/21, der Mouse <mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca>:
> > I don't (speak for core).  However, the momentum (in both reasoning
> > and deeds) is too strong to go back at this point.
>
> ...huh?
>
> I've been hearing people saying for a long time that NetBSD needs new
> users.  Here we have a user, a user squarely in the middle of what we
> have been claiming NetBSD is all about, pointing out that we've broken
> something he was depending on - because it was an advertised feature, I
> gather - without any replacement, and you're saying, damn the
> torpedoes, full speed ahead away from being useful to this user.
>
> Something's wrong with this picture.
>
> There is no reason whatever we couldn't go back.  CVS is totally
> competent to cough up the state the tree used to be in.  A more
> accurate phrasing would be that you are not willing to go back.
>
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