Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:21:24 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xl driver for 3Com Message-ID: <19990601032124.7725.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199905290448.AAA28640@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> of Sat, 29 May 1999 00:48:49 -0400 References: <199905290448.AAA28640@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Bill Paul writes: > If you have a real, detailed and accurate bug report to submit, then fine: > let's hear it. But if you just want to make vague and unsubstantiated > complaints, do me a favor and just keep it to yourself. This whole argument strikes me as a good wake up call for all of us. It really is important to make sure that problems with software are reported and that those reports are framed in a useful manner, because that is the only way that software gets improved. I'm sometimes guilty of not bothering to report bugs that I can easily work around, even though I hate it when people who use my software do the same. I'm re-motivated now to make the effort to contribute meaningful reports whenever I find bugs. As an aside, my experience with the xl driver (ever since I added it in to 2.2.7) has been completely positive, so I can't help with fixing any possible problems there. As for Dennis, he's just not worth responding to. He has a bad reputation as a total waste of space with an attitude problem as big as Texas. Just ignore him. -- Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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