Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:51:39 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB memory stick hotswap problems Message-ID: <20040927195139.GA38187@parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20040927193904.GB1016@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20040925205030.M69999@www.ideaway.net> <20040927193904.GB1016@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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Whoa, easy there. I think Mike was just providing some (what may be considered superfluous/obvious) feedback to the issue at hand; he honestly stated up front he had no solution, which implies he's not sure of how to go about fixing the problem at hand. I viewed his "criticism" as more positive than negative; I took it to read "this is something we definitely need to look at and resolve, not just put on the back-burner." I think the number of people who manage and maintain the USB stack is, as you ptu it, limited. I don't know what happened to Nick Hibma (the original maintainer/porter of the USB stack), but it seems things have changed hands. Finally, albeit a bit off-topic: financial contributions don't always make things happen quicker in the open-source world. Although we have less "managerial" red-tape to deal with, there are still only 24 hours in a day, and many of us work full-time jobs. Time is limited, regardless if there's a donation involved or otherwise. :-) Just my $0.02. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. | On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:39:04PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:50:30PM -0500, Mike wrote: > > Although I fully understand your reasoning, there is still a major > > problem here that really should be resolved. I don't claim that I > > have a solution - but I think I have an example that really requires > > for this to be solved in some way other than "you must unmount the > > USB device before unplugging". > > You can make statements like this all you want, but at the end of the > day all you do is delay the solution. The few developers who are > capable of fixing these sorts of problems understand the issues and > would like to fix them, but the code is question is large, complex, and > fairly crufty. It also wasn't designed with this sort of scenario in > mind. The more time those developers have to spend reading messages > from people demanding a fix and pontificating on the importance of > the fix, the less time they can spend of the necessary architectural > cleanups to actually fix the problem. > > If you want to do something to hasten the arrival of a fix, consider > donating to the Foundation for work in this area or perhaps contributing > to a developer like PHK when they solicit donations to enable them to do > related work. > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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