Re: warning of pending commit attempt.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>  > Julian Elischer wrote:
>  >> Andre Oppermann wrote:
>  >>> Brooks Davis wrote:
>  >>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:44:56PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>  >>>>
>  >>>>> At some stage in the next few weeks I will be trying to commit
>  >>>>> Marco Zec's vimage code to -current. (only 'trying' not
>  >>>>> for technical reasons, but political).
>  >>> ...
>  >>>>> Why now?
>  >>>>>  The code is in a shape where teh compiled out version of hte
>  >>>>> system is stable. In the compiled in version, it is functional
>  >>>>> enough to provide nearly all of what people want. It needs people
>  >>>>> with other interests to adapt it to their purposes and use it so
>  >>>>> that it can become a solid product for future releases.
>  >>>>
>  >>>> The website has a snapshot with a date over a month old and many
>  >>>> comments about unstable interfaces.  I've seen zero reports of
>  >>>> substantial testing...
>  >>>
>  >>> What about locking and SMP scalability?  Any new choke points?
>  >>
>  >> not that I've seen.
>  >
>  > That's a less than resounding endorsement :)
>
>  do the 10Gb ethernet adapters have any major problems?
>  are you willing to answer "no"?
>  should we then rip them from the tree?
>
>  I'm saying "this is work in progress" It seems stable and useful.
>  until we can get more than 6 people running it we won't know more.
>



Given how long it has been since RELENG_7 branched - if its really a
no-op when disabled,  I personally don't see it any issues with it.

 -Kip