From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 21 8:26:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F1137B401; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:26:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F92043ED8; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:26:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2003012116261100100hpjobe>; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:26:11 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0LGQAA8001308; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:26:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0LGQ88B001307; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:26:08 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200301211626.h0LGQ88B001307@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20021120 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Arun Sharma Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: verbose device probing ? In-Reply-To: <20030121051713.GA12845@sharma-home.net> References: <20030120065614.GA4212@sharma-home.net> <200301201633.h0KGX9B9087836@intruder.bmah.org> <20030121051713.GA12845@sharma-home.net> Comments: In-reply-to Arun Sharma message dated "Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:17:13 -0800." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_2074436656P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:26:08 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_2074436656P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Arun Sharma wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:33:09AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > PS. I personally ignore the severity and priority fields of PRs. The > > importance of many PRs I've dealt with is very much inflated. > > > > Perhaps you should change the severity field to a lower level then ? Or > is there a different problem (such as lack of good tools) that prevent you > from doing that ? The severity and priority fields can be changed manually but that doesn't solve the problem that relying on the user-specified severity and priority fields for anything meaningful just doesn't work. The only point that I was trying to make with my comment was that you shouldn't place much weight on the contents of the severity and priority fields in the database. Bruce. --==_Exmh_2074436656P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+LXSg2MoxcVugUsMRAr4OAJ43Chdu4w3VW5lioGSTl5VihyYNugCeNK7Y +2MXHm4+zuEFn3ti+zfk1Jg= =uX6z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_2074436656P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message