On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 03:48:44PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > > > On 8/7/16 14:20, Warner Losh wrote: > > > >> On Aug 7, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Andrey Chernov <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> > >>> OTOH, FreeBSD has a documented deprecation process that says things will > >>> continue working for a major release after being formally deprecated. > >> > >> FreeBSD 11 is not released yet (betas are not counted), stable-10 too, > >> so it is right time to deprecate for them. > > > > Nice try, but feature freeze was months ago. Have you got buy in from the > > security officer and the release engineer? > > Well, despite the fact that I have to admit that I get locked out from > my own storage box too, however (even without wearing any hat) I am for > the change and would blame myself for being lazy in adopting the change > when the upstream have announced it earlier about a year ago.
While the timing sucks, I don't see any way around this change given our experience with the HPN patches and that upstream plans to kill this feature, we must not ship 11 with support enabled. There's just no practical way to keep adding back a feature for 4-5 years. -- Brooks
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