Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 15:46:42 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: F00F bug *fixed* in 2.0.x kernels Message-ID: <19971212154642.57734@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <14241.881910240@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 11:04:00PM -0800 References: <3491cfe3.6774010@mail.cetlink.net> <14241.881910240@time.cdrom.com>
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(following up to -chat) On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 11:04:00PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Yeah, I think everyone's seen this Torvalds flame by now. > > The sad thing was, that was *not* the FreeBSD fix. It was a fix that > had been floated earlier by someone on the mailing lists and was never > committed to the tree - the eventual fix which made it in was the > Intel fix. Intel, in fact, even commented on that first proposed fix > even earlier than Linus did and told us why it wouldn't work. > > There was never any intention of using the fix that Linus cites, it > was just one of many fixes under evaluation, and all he's done here is > gone off half-cocked again with accompanying language which simply > made the mistake far worse than it needed to be. People will often > forgive one even the most blatant suppositions if one is polite about > them. Make even a minor error with the tagline "(you fucking idiot!)" > embeded, however, and you can count on being embroiled in flames for > at least a month. I think Miss Manners may be on to something > here. :-) In fact, this was the first I had seen of it. How do people manage to read the news groups as well? It's a pity that Linus seems to be becoming less professional in his approach. In that message, he reminded me more of a football hero hurling invective after a match. Is this the price of fame? Greg
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