[patch] halt/reboot/shutdown cleanup

[Warner Losh]

On May 16, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
>> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
>>>> I hate these messages, which is why I always use halt or reboot to
>>>> avoid them. 
>>> You hate messages? Seriously?
>> Seriously.  And I'd appreciate it if you didn't mock me on this.  It
>> is rude and insulting and not constructive to a dialog.
> 
> Sorry, Warner, but what I see here is *you* attacking and insulting
> Jilles and Doug.

No, I was telling Doug to back off since he's been annoying me lately.   And I haven't been insulting Jiles at all.  This came up before, there was no consensus.  It has come up again and we're making progress to a solution this time.

>> The distaste for extra, useless messages, I'll admit, is a personality
>> quirk that I share with many people.
> 
> "The silent majority supports me" is not a valid argument.

That's not my argument at all.  Please don't twist it into that.  Go check the IRC logs for the folks that chimed in, but really, we're talking about changing interfaces that people are used to and aren't too keen on giving up.

Have a nice day.

Warner