From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 11 23:47:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA28867 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 23:47:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Tandem.com (suntan.tandem.com [192.216.221.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA28848 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 23:47:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from papillon.lemis.com ([168.87.69.104]) by Tandem.com (8.8.8/2.0.1) with ESMTP id XAA14578; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 23:47:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id PAA10338; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 15:46:45 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <19971212154642.57734@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 15:46:42 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: F00F bug *fixed* in 2.0.x kernels References: <3491cfe3.6774010@mail.cetlink.net> <14241.881910240@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <14241.881910240@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 11:04:00PM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (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