From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Nov 18 21:18:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538F814C2C for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:18:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA43167; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:18:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:18:27 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199911190518.AAA43167@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Nick Hibma Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/14968: Convert resource_head and resource.r_link from CIRCLEQ to TAILQ In-Reply-To: References: <199911181530.HAA00383@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > Could you please be more constructive in responses to PR's? These people > have spent quite some time sending the bug reports in. It's no more > than polite to actually invest some time in checking whether they are > right It's impossible for me to be wrong when the question under consideration is one of my intent in writing something in a particular way. Since the author of the PR provided no explanation of why he felt the need to change data structures, I don't feel any obligation to do the converse. Perhaps he is right, and another data structure would be more appropriate, but it is up to him to explain what brings him to that conclusion -- ``Here, have some patches!'' doesn't cut it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message