From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 17:52:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752A8153D4 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04860; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912110154.RAA04860@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:23:21 MST." <199912102123.OAA21691@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:54:14 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If half as much energy was spent adding the missing bits of functionality > > to the new systems as people have been spending complaining it then we'd be > > there ages ago. > > Not true. It doesn't take a disk expert to complain about a policy, but > it takes one to fix bugs/add features to the existing driver. :) :) :) That's ignoring the fact that it takes less energy to become enough of a "disk expert" to do something useful than it takes to engage in the sort of protracted whining that we're seeing. It does take more foresight and commitment to actually doing something though, and given the popularity of graffiti and mindless vandalism these days perhaps that's just par for the course. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message