To be retired soon...

Jamie Landeg-Jones jamie at catflap.org
Wed Jan 10 13:04:01 UTC 2018


"Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday,  9 January 2018 at 20:52:30 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:

> > I plan on marking these drivers with a new API (
> > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13818) in the coming days saying they
> > will be removed in 12.x (meaning not in 12.0 or later).
>
> Is that "not" intended?  12.x sounds very much like 12.0 or later.  Or
> is it maybe "not in 12.0, but later in 12"?

Ah, the wonders of the English language!

I read it in another alternative way: that they'd be removed whilst
12 was still CURRENT i.e.: ".... will be removed in 12.x (meaning they
will not exist in 12.0 or later)"

cheers, Jamie


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