From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 28 12:44:42 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep12-int.chello.nl (amsfep12-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD6737B409; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:44:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org ([62.163.96.180]) by amsfep12-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20011028204426.PNCT7460.amsfep12-int.chello.nl@daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org>; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:44:26 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f9SKLW131796; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:21:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:21:31 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: babkin@FreeBSD.org Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Greg Lehey , mjacob@feral.com, Jonathan Lemon , "Andrey A. Chernov" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Causing known breakage (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c subr_disk.c) Message-ID: <20011028212131.H96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <33623.1004269277@critter.freebsd.dk> <3BDC2EAB.A59C7071@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BDC2EAB.A59C7071@bellatlantic.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20011028 17:30], Sergey Babkin (babkin@bellatlantic.net) wrote: >That's a wrong assumption. This means only that nobody has enough >interest (yet?) to start figuring out what change in the other parts of >the system has caused the breakage and rewriting the drivers >around it (and then re-testing them and fixing the new bugs). >People who use them may prefer to stay with 4.x or say "screw FreeBSD" >and switch to Linux. One year of: WARNING: your driver is making weird/dumb/foolish assumptions!!! Hello fix me?! should be enough incentive. Remember, developers can also ask the person installing the changes for some more details. Come on people, this isn't a one-way street. There exist such a thing as a dialogue. not just monologues. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org|xmach.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ To meet, to know, to love - and then to part, is the sad tale of many a heart... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message