svn commit: r205014 - in head: . sys/amd64/amd64 sys/amd64/conf sys/amd64/include sys/amd64/linux32 sys/compat/freebsd32 sys/compat/ia32 sys/conf sys/fs/procfs sys/ia64/conf sys/ia64/ia64 sys/ia64/...

[Rui Paulo]

On 13 Mar 2010, at 11:53, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On 12 Mar 2010, at 21:36, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn
>>> <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Author: nwhitehorn
>>>> Date: Thu Mar 11 14:49:06 2010
>>>> New Revision: 205014
>>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205014
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>  Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86  
>>>> platforms,
>>>>  for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the
>>>> COMPAT_IA32
>>>>  option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from  
>>>> MI
>>>> parts
>>>>  of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to  
>>>> support
>>>>  big-endian platforms.
>>>
>>> COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily
>>> interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like
>>> "COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful.
>>
>> There's a lengthy discussion about this on another mailing list.
>>
>> This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who  
>> provided
>> valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone else's.
>
> So the user - the person to whom the software is made, theoretically -
> don't have the right to disagree when he sees a change that looks
> confusing "because the committers's time is too valuable". Sorry, I
> was not aware of that policy. Please forgive my audacity. Keep in mind
> that we, the users, are a bunch of idiots that don't like to become
> astonished by sudden changes in the meaning of the symbols that we use
> to see. Thanks God we have you, the holly committers to protect us
> from our own ignorance.

You said that, I didn't. Please refrain from distorting my own words.  
If you want something discussed, do it on the other list and, please,  
do it with a grown up attitude because, quite frankly, what you wrote  
doesn't make sense.

Thank you,
--
Rui Paulo