Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:22:16 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 Message-ID: <20000314162216.B68549@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150146330.3450-100000@alphplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:12:51AM %2B1100 References: <20000314063350.D14789@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150146330.3450-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
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-On [20000314 16:15], Bruce Evans (bde@zeta.org.au) wrote: >On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> * Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [000314 06:25] wrote: >> > I'm still using this driver. Put it back. >> >> I'm sure it can be put back, but your feedback as to why would be >> appreciated. Please be frank as I'd like to see ata as good if >> not better than wd and if it isn't working as well as wd then we'd >> like to know how and why. > >Stubbornness. I don't like the way it does some things, and resolved >not to debug it or use it until I have hardware that needs it. Right >now it supports less of my hardware than my version of the wd/wdc >driver. (It can't read a cheap cdrom which may have the wrong jumper >settings. The wd driver couldn't probe this cdrom but was easy to fix.) With all due respect, stubbornness is not a valid reason in my eyes. Following CURRENT in the last few months/years that I have, I have been forced to bite the sour apple and make changes myself. If I can do it, surely you can do it as well. `It supports less of my hardware', could you please substantiate? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <asmodai@bart.nl> VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.bart.nl If I promise you the Moon and the Stars, would you believe it..? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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