Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:49:12 -0700 From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: =?unknown-8bit?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@DeepCore.dk> Subject: Re: Updated SATA support patches for Intel ICH & Promise cards Message-ID: <20040505224912.GA9165@isite.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405041909590.31369-100000@pancho> References: <20040504235754.GA8@isite.net> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405041909590.31369-100000@pancho>
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Just so you know, you're singing to the choir here. I think everyone realizes that its going to take coordination. But Soren didn't say "whoah, let's try this a different way" he went directly to "you're wasting my time" without even a basic attempt to consolidate the efforts. On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 07:15:15PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > > It sounds very much like you're putting your ego far, far in front > > of functional code. > > I think you should go back and read the history of the work that > Soren has done before you criticize him. I am not at all surprised > that he has a large number of patches in the queue due to the amount > of work that he puts in on ATA (mostly unheralded). > > There is certainly plenty of work to go around in this area, but > no doubt needs careful coordination due to the complexity of the > work involved -- it has seemed, in the past, that seemingly-trivial > changes break old, brain-damaged, ATA hardware. > > Please, folks, let's try to work together on these really hard > problems, and respect that fact that coordinating lots of changes > are always going to require extra work -- but it will get FreeBSD > a lot further along towards its goals in the long run. > > mcl -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek JRhett@Isite.Net Isite Services, Inc.
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