From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 14 12:56:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB2914E6C for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:56:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA01304 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:56:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:56:14 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912142056.VAA01304@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to rewrite the data field replaceable unit? Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > > A suggestion to the Device Driver Gods: Please make error messages > > understandable to the rest of us. > > That's kinda difficult, actually. Error messages need to be accurate and > understandable to people that understand what's really going on. It's > not the job of an error message to explain how the hardware works. Is it really that difficult to (at least) insert a comma or something before "field replaceable unit"? I got bitten by that unrecognizable error message once, too... Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message