A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun May 28 01:19:21 PDT 2006


In message <4478F767.5090403 at FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton writes:

>At first glance I don't see anything wrong with that logic. My one request
>is that you add a branch that says, "if legacy behavior is requested by
><some configuration method>, add it to the mix."

Legacy behaviour is exactly what we need to avoid to get the
device locking sorted out, so this would be rather poisonous
to the entire effort.

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