From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 12: 2:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ddg.com (eunuch.ddg.com [216.30.58.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD16537B931 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from nomad.dataplex.net (24.28.73.209) by mail.ddg.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1); Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:02:28 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: Bill Fumerola Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:02:28 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.41] Content-Type: text/plain References: <200004231909.MAA09128@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <00042404464300.09955@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000424144441.W397@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <20000424144441.W397@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042414022801.09427@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:46:43AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > >From the USER's perspective, anything that requires me to as much as > > > reload > > > > a module/program that I have already installed "breaks" it. > > The fact that it is only necessary to recompile it in order to fix it > > only means that it is easy to fix IF I have the source code. > > No-one forces you to upgrade you systems. Partial upgrades are something > that are nice when they work, but understood when they don't. > > We don't accept bug reports (typically) when a person hasn't upgraded their > world, kernel, and modules. I don't understand why we're accepting > preemptive bitching. That is also partly why you are also lacking the respect and support of a wider audience. If you act like FreeBSD is just a "developer's sandbox", that's what it will be. If you want it to be something greater than that, you must consider what you are doing to third party developers and end users. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message