From nobody Wed Jun 04 16:20:57 2025 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4bCCWC5Jfvz5xFYM for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:21:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christos@freebsd.org) Received: from margiolis.net (mail.margiolis.net [95.179.159.8]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA512) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4bCCW76JHpz3lf8; Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:21:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christos@freebsd.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=margiolis.net header.s=default header.b=h1rS31g5; spf=softfail (mx1.freebsd.org: 95.179.159.8 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of christos@freebsd.org) smtp.mailfrom=christos@freebsd.org; dmarc=fail reason="No valid SPF, DKIM not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=freebsd.org (policy=none) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; s=default; bh=tcJ6hlitYL8B m2oLAhLQcXctA/8y4mzChD9uXPv6WGU=; h=subject:cc:to:from:date; d=margiolis.net; b=h1rS31g5WKniddlSvaOQ3m0ab5I9TEkVPSEHZTZTGamVDfHOTw/ qsmCf8CxxvoJkE6/k4yFswtg7Xn+YfhVFpiTJz0buOvmYuS3rioSBqJQ6zt4pMVU8LjsLL munC9LPGvUGT3MZ98SriQV6mHaH2pXkpFoeq00ZlKnnmW2GKP8= Received: from pleb (public-gprs250170.centertel.pl [31.60.124.123]) by margiolis.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 118a59ce (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Wed, 4 Jun 2025 10:20:58 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 18:20:57 +0200 From: Christos Margiolis To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: adrian@freebsd.org Subject: /dev/sequencer retiring Message-ID: List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.19 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.997]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.99)[-0.995]; MID_RHS_NOT_FQDN(0.50)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.50)[0.498]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[margiolis.net:s=default]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[freebsd.org : No valid SPF, DKIM not aligned (relaxed),none]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[christos]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20473, ipnet:95.179.144.0/20, country:US]; MISSING_XM_UA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; R_SPF_SOFTFAIL(0.00)[~all:c]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[margiolis.net:+] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4bCCW76JHpz3lf8 X-Spamd-Bar: - As part of a series of MIDI patches and cleanups, I (along with adrian@ mostly) decided to retire /dev/sequencer [1] on 15.0, for the reasons explained in the commit message. I've also pushed a deprecation notice on main and stable/14. Christos [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50605 [2] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=799105f53a9647f86dbf08456260d5850851b6f9