Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 09:36:13 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Subject: Re: Final request for help with release. (DPT boot floppy) Message-ID: <19970822093613.ES33724@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970821172332.11040B-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom Samplonius on Aug 21, 1997 17:25:41 -0700 References: <25619.872204476@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970821172332.11040B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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As Tom Samplonius wrote: > But according to recent discusions, core has rejected the DPT driver as > it stands... Which `core'? Your core memory? Dunno. The NetBSD core team? Dunno. If the term `core', as you're using it, stands as an abbreviation for ``The FreeBSD core team'', then i'm surprised to hear that you're a member of it, apparently. Otherwise, how did you learn this news? I believe i'm a member of this core team, and i frankly can't remember any decision of the kind you're quoting above. So the only explanation, short of you throwing a lie around, is that it must have been some other `core'. Stop spreading misinformation, and please, think before posting. Sentences like these can quickly start major flame wars, and insult personal feelings, as you've already seen from Simon's reaction (which is, assuming your words would be truth, understandable). The truth is, the developer who volunteered to do the DPT driver integration, is Justin Gibbs. (He's incidentally also a member of the FreeBSD core team, but that doesn't matter much in this respect except that one can take it as a sign of some experience in FreeBSD matters.) He had some critics on the DPT driver code (which he discussed with Simon), but he never claimed he would reject the driver wholesale. No, i don't speak for the core team (can't do so without prior discussion, obviously), but felt some words of correction were due now, immediately. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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