From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 27 18:43:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75E31532F for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 18:43:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA14408; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 03:43:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch to fix VN device (again) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Dec 1999 18:27:02 PST." <199912280227.SAA35755@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 03:43:25 +0100 Message-ID: <14406.946349005@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199912280227.SAA35755@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > Sorry Poul, but you have no authority in this matter. All the statements > you have made in the last hour simply point out, in very clear terms, > that you don't know what you are talking about. Instead of simply > admiting a mistake or even spending some time to review the code > more closely, your solution is instead to continue to make outrageous > statements. The fact that I think the hacks should be kept firmly inside the VM system, rather than spill out into the rest of the kernel is not something I count amongst my mistakes. I have actually spent quite some time looking at the code, both before and again tonight just because of your email. That is probably the best example of a review process which works. > Frankly, Poul, I strongly, *STRONGLY* recommend that you simply not > reply to any of my postings. This has been my general policy for a long time, but it gets overridden whenever you come up with something which is obviously wrong. (And I find the fact that so many people have adopted this policy disturbing, and sufficient grounds for me to relax my instance of it.) > Not a single one, because I am wholely > sick and tired of your superiority complex. This thread was not meant > for you, and your presence in it is not welcome. And don't even think > about doing an end-run around me and committing your frankly inappropriate > 'solution' - I'm going through proper channels to get this in. I have all rights I need to answer you when you send an email in public asking for a review. It is my obligation to answer you when I am one of the few people who are not intimidated by neither you nor the code in question and I can see that what you are proposing is plain wrong. So far you have one very experienced kernel programmer objecting to your patch, so yes: you will bloddy have to go through proper channels to resolve this issue. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message