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Date:      Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:07:43 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files kern.pre.mk src/sys/dev/em LICENSE e1000_80003es2lan.c e1000_80003es2lan.h e1000_82540.c e1000_82541.c e1000_82541.h e1000_82542.c e1000_82543.c e1000_82543.h e1000_82571.c e1000_82571.h e1000_82575.c ...
Message-ID:  <20071006200743.GA24686@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <86odfcvx3x.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200710052249.l95Mn9Nb071852@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071005231538.GA24016@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <2a41acea0710051705l217224b6vc705dc6139b94e3b@mail.gmail.com> <20071006004634.GA24962@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <47073AF5.1010109@samsco.org> <86d4vspk8j.fsf@ds4.des.no> <47079A5C.3090109@samsco.org> <86odfcvx3x.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:53:06PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > > We used to have a principle that commit bits were granted to individu=
als
> > > on their individual merit, not simply because they represented a vend=
or
> > > and were paid to work on drivers for that vendor's hardware.
> > Are you implying that Jack has no merit?  That's an unfortunate
> > assertion.  What evidence do you have to support that?
>=20
> It is you who implied rather strongly that Jack is neither more nor less
> than an Intel representative.  You spoke of "lecturing a vendor" when
> all Erik did was point out or own rules to a *committer*.
>=20
> > > We also used to have a principle that changes should be tested
> > > before being committed, especially to -STABLE.
> > I guess you missed that part where Jack said that the changes had
> > undergone extensive testing.
>=20
> I guess you missed the part where his commit broke the tinderbox,
> because he clearly did not test the DEVICE_POLLING case.

In Jack's defense that particular problem was apparently beacuse a 7.x
interface was left in the code  (bus_setup_intr(9) takes one more argument
in 7.x than it does in 6.x.)  That would not have been caught by having
the code go into -CURRENT first.


--=20
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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