svn commit: r362466 - in head: contrib/file/magic/Magdir contrib/tcpdump lib/geom/part stand/efi/include stand/i386/boot0 sys/dev/hptmv sys/geom/part usr.bin/fortune/datfiles usr.bin/mkimg usr.sbin...

Hans Petter Selasky hps at selasky.org
Sun Jun 21 14:45:47 UTC 2020


Hi Alexey,

On 2020-06-21 16:27, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> There is no chicken and egg problem here Hans.  You're inventing bogus
> and unsound terminology that does no good and only confuses our users,
> code readers, and makes us as a project look like idiots.

There is no unsound terminology:
https://www.google.com/search?q=main+boot+record

At least Google knows exactly what I mean, even without asking if I want 
to search for "main boot loader" or "master boot loader"!

> Several people had asked you to revert the commit.  It was not properly
> reviewed, it solves no existing problem, but creates one instead.

Like said, there no real breakage. And if you find more that is broken I 
will write it down, like the Wikipedia link and fix it. Please give me 
some time.

--HPS


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