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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:04:46 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pccard pccard.c pcic.c pcic_pci.c pcicvar.h
Message-ID:  <1174410000.1000379086@lobster.originative.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010913035412.B7016@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <200109130826.f8D8QtY18779@freefall.freebsd.org> <1121080000.1000369966@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20010913033008.A7016@dragon.nuxi.com> <1164990000.1000377601@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20010913035412.B7016@dragon.nuxi.com>

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--On Thursday, September 13, 2001 03:54:12 -0700 David O'Brien
<obrien@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:40:01AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote:
>> >> >   Log:
>> >> >   <jkh> "Hey Rocky, watch me eject this pccard outta my laptop!"
>> >> >   "What, again?  That NEVER works!"  "This time for sure!"
>> 
>> A side note on humour; "tuna fish" is an english language pun whereas I
>> suspect the above quote means nothing to a large percentage of the user
>> base.
> 
> Actually I disagree.  The comment is right on as far as what is being
> fixed.  The reference to "Rocky" and the sentence style will probably be
> lost as you say.  But the message is actually on the mark.  Especially if
> you do a `cvs log' and see all the commits over a short amount of time.

I can sort of see that actually. If you take away Rocky and interpret the
rest of the sentence as some sort of jive type slang then the message does
make sense for the commit.

I think "finally fix card ejection" would probably be easier to understand
for non-english speakers though (and grep) :-)


Paul Richards
FreeBSD Services Ltd
http://www.freebsd-services.com

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