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Date:      Tue, 19 Feb 2019 17:23:59 +0000
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Daniel Ebdrup <debdrup@gmail.com>, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com>, Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>, Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Vladimir Kondratyev <vladimir@kondratyev.su>
Subject:   Re: What is evdev and autoloading?
Message-ID:  <20190219172358.GB26499@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <201902191425.x1JEPWAw010741@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <77542747-D818-4A61-9D40-934A71D4EAEE@gmail.com> <201902191425.x1JEPWAw010741@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 06:25:32AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> We are certainly driving users away by our operation model

If you want to help take up more support duties -- especially for aging
hardware -- I doubt anyone would stop you.  There is plenty of work to
take up; just check Bugzilla.

> This is not some leap forward for anyone

Nonsense.

> and definitely a slight step backwards for some, many, who knows,
> I put it in the 1000s of users.

Utter nonsense.  Right now we see the the following case: "latest
graphics fail to work on i386 laptops".  I fail to believe that is
more than a handful of users.

mcl



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