From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Nov 19 11:41:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from ns.skylink.it (ns.skylink.it [194.177.113.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8719F1570C for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hibma@skylink.it) Received: from skylink.it (va-150.skylink.it [194.185.55.150]) by ns.skylink.it (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17259; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:42:00 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skylink.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA03285; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:28:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hibma@skylink.it) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:28:56 +0100 (CET) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@henny.jrc.it Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/14968: Convert resource_head and resource.r_link from CIRCLEQ to TAILQ In-Reply-To: <199911190518.AAA43167@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. There is a world full of people out there who don't share your sentiment for TV English. > 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. Bullocks and you know it. He sends in a patch which is more than most people do, and therefore has put some effort into doing things. If you want the argument behind the patch, then ask for it. Maybe he felt that it was too obvious to mention. By the way, 'Why?' is less work to type then 'Sez who!?', with respect to the number of characters as well as the space covered on the keyboard. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message