From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 28 17: 5:53 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13E837B403; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 79E63786E1; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:35:43 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:35:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: babkin@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp , 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: <20011029113543.I12887@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <33623.1004269277@critter.freebsd.dk> <3BDC2EAB.A59C7071@bellatlantic.net> <20011028212131.H96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011028212131.H96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from asmodai@wxs.nl on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:21:31PM +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Sunday, 28 October 2001 at 21:21:31 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > -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?! "Your driver"? I thought this was the FreeBSD project's driver. > should be enough incentive. Agreed. That's why I suggest that it should be fixed. If it's apparent to somebody, and it's getting in the way of their code, then they get to fix it. They don't just commit their code and make matters even worse. > Come on people, this isn't a one-way street. There exist such a > thing as a dialogue. not just monologues. Indeed. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message