Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:21:31 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: babkin@FreeBSD.org Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, mjacob@feral.com, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Causing known breakage (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c subr_disk.c) Message-ID: <20011028212131.H96876@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <3BDC2EAB.A59C7071@bellatlantic.net> References: <33623.1004269277@critter.freebsd.dk> <3BDC2EAB.A59C7071@bellatlantic.net>
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-On [20011028 17:30], Sergey Babkin (babkin@bellatlantic.net) wrote: >That's a wrong assumption. This means only that nobody has enough >interest (yet?) to start figuring out what change in the other parts of >the system has caused the breakage and rewriting the drivers >around it (and then re-testing them and fixing the new bugs). >People who use them may prefer to stay with 4.x or say "screw FreeBSD" >and switch to Linux. One year of: WARNING: your driver is making weird/dumb/foolish assumptions!!! Hello fix me?! should be enough incentive. Remember, developers can also ask the person installing the changes for some more details. Come on people, this isn't a one-way street. There exist such a thing as a dialogue. not just monologues. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org|xmach.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ To meet, to know, to love - and then to part, is the sad tale of many a heart... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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