From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 15 7:58:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5498014BEF for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 07:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA41608; Sat, 15 May 1999 15:58:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 15:58:01 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Noriyuki Soda Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c In-Reply-To: <199905151449.XAA25692@srapc342.sra.co.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 May 1999, Noriyuki Soda wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 13 May 1999 10:41:23 +0100 (BST), > Doug Rabson said: > > > As I suspected, a massive flamewar has happened while I've been away. I > > don't think I have anything to add to what has been said (and I certainly > > don't want to continue a flamewar). > > > Can people please just drop the subject until after Usenix. This kind of > > flamewar is too upsetting (to me anyway) and just makes it harder to have > > a useful face-to-face discussion. > > As I said earlier, I agree with you. > About human factor, I think face to face communication is best way to > solve problem. > > But about technical issues, I'd like to reply in public place, > because both the message from Julian (*1) and the message from > Daniel (*2) showed typical misunderstanding about newconfig. > The goal they showed is also the goal of the dynamic configuration of > newconfig from the beggining. I'd like to show how it will be achieved > by newconifg. > > Could you permit me to answer technical issues in -hackers as Daniel > adviced ? > Or, -current is better about the questions which is posted to -current ? > > Other possibility is newconfig mailig list (anyone can subscribe it > and it's archive can be accessed from WWW), or postponement until > after Usenix. I would like to postpone until after Usenix. I'm sure that we will be able to sort out any technical misunderstandings there which will make it possible to have a reasonable public discussion. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message