From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 12 12:11:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAED37B409 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 12:11:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA57396; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 12:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B76D4D1.BC8C327F@DougBarton.net> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 12:11:13 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach References: <200108120813.RAA26578@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <200108121614.f7CGE3W01341@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <200108120813.RAA26578@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: > : For the last few years, I have struggled to figure out the contents of > : packets sent by various mice. No, I have not published a manual or > : notes (other than code itself and CVS logs) to describe what I have > : found. I know I should do that. I simply haven't had time. Don't > : accuse me of being lazy. It's volunteer project! People do what s/he > : can do in his/her spare time! > > Yokota-san, > I've had 2 mice that haven't worked with FreeBSD since you > started doing the mice support. Both of them were defective mice > (took them back to the store and exchanged them for an identical mouse > that worked). Every weird, oddball mouce that I've ever tried on many > different machines have just worked. In those cases where there were > problems, you've been extremely helpful in getting me enough > information to fix the problem (usually it boiled down to a > configuration issue). I've thought of many kind words to describe > your efforts, and "lazy" has never been one of them. > > I think that it is summer and people like to complain more > than in the winter. It happens every year and is hard to not take > personally. I was going to write essentially the same e-mail, so I'll settle for a "mee too." The people doing the complaining need to stop doing that and figure out a way to help _other_ than lobbing in grenades from the sidelines. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message