On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 04:21:32PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > Can anyone point out to me when and where the change to require SSE4.2 was > dicussed? The first I saw of it was when the commit to the release notes went > in on August 3, and I can find no prior mention of it, save for the patches > that > went in separately in the prior weeks. > > Neil > There was no real widespread discussion of it, if that's what you are looking for. I made the proposal via patch, and it was reviewed and acked by a number of folks, with nobody raising any objections at the time. Possibly it was a change that should have been more widely publicised ahead of time, but I'm not sure what form that publicization should have taken, since all tech discussion happens on the dev mailing list anyway. Not that I'm planning any similar changes, but for the future, what do you think the process for changes like this should be - and what changes would classify for it? If we have a process problem, let's try and fix it.
Regards, /Bruce.
