cvs commit: src/sys/geom/eli g_eli.c

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jan 31 08:36:23 UTC 2007


In message <200701301636.38175.jhb at freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:

>Something you seem to be missing though is that in general it's nice to not 
>just endulge in an endless series of hacks in your specific area of the 
>system.  IWBN to at some point devote some time to help fix more general 
>problems that will benefit the system as a whole rather than adding hacks 
>that just benefit yourself and require someone else to clean up when they 
>eventually add the more-architected solution.  We are all very busy, but if 
>everyone just did hacks and never put any effort into improving the general 
>infrastructure, we'd have a royal mess.

Seconded.

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