From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 4 21:47: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023EA14EE3 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:47:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id VAA13178; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:45:36 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id VAA15974; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:45:36 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA03743; Sat, 4 Dec 99 21:45:32 PST Message-Id: <3849FC0D.E29DF371@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 22:45:49 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?) References: <41264.944342473@zippy.cdrom.com> <199912042149.NAA57545@apollo.backplane.com> <3849BE44.EF52448C@softweyr.com> <199912050453.UAA58889@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Matt, this thread is a LOT older than Nov 20th, it runs for YEARS. Dennis > :said the same things about 2.2 vs. 2.1.5 at the very least. A few years > :later when he finally got his driver sorted out for 2.2, it became the > :best thing since sliced bread and now 3.x is nothing but crap. > : > :Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > > If you base your opinion on something a person has done years ago then > absolutely *nothing* he can do will change your opinion. If you then > perpetuate the problem by using that as the basis for a continuing opinion, > and use that to color your every reply, then you create a self-fullfilling > prophesy. The only person you have to blame in that type of situation is > yourself, since you are the only one who can change it. Oh hell, how did I manage to fall into alt.philosophy.est? Wait a minute, this *is* freebsd-hackers. It's *you* who is off topic, and off base. As penance, you get to go read everything ever posted to a freebsd mailing list by JMJr. People do change, and I continually await improvement from the lot of 'em. I'm rarely pleasantly surprised. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message