From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 12 5:35:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B2537BE11; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 05:35:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA83464; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:34:54 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:34:53 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Mike Smith Cc: Dennis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dennis' inability to fix the eepro driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Uhhh... And before anybody gets all kinds of funny ideas, no, i am not trying to blackmail Dennis. On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Narvi wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Why haven't you considered hiring somebody to document the parts you are > > > intersted in? Would solve at least half the problem... > > > > To be fair to Dennis, it's not the cost of paying the dropout to fix this > > driver that's at issue here. > > > > Documentation for the eepro parts is not easy to get; I only have one > > outdated hardcopy, and I get all sorts of weird stuff thrown at me. > > > > Nah. It wasn't in response to anything that dealt with the driver. Nothing > to do with eepro at all. > > It was in response to the rant about how everything was undocumented > spaghetty code so few people could make any sense of that people were > virtually dependant on those few. > > [snip] > > > > > -- > > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message