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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:40:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ed Alley <wea@llnl.gov>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/47982: Response to Dag-Erling
Message-ID:  <200303172340.h2HNeD0R001479@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/47982; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ed Alley <wea@llnl.gov>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc: wea@llnl.gov
Subject: kern/47982: Response to Dag-Erling
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:36:48 -0800 (PST)

 >Submitter-Id:	current-users
 >Originator:	Ed Alley
 >Organization:	LLNL
 >Confidential:	no
 >Synopsis:	kern/47982: Response to Dag-Erling
 >Severity:	non-critical
 >Priority:	low
 >Category:	kern
 >Class:		update
 >Release:	FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE i386
 >Environment:   FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE i386
 
 >Description:
 	Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
 
 >you'd be better off turning your code into a port.
 
 That's a silly idea. Either the FS should fly as a kernel module
 as submitted or else forget it. A port exists in user-land NOT
 kernel-land. The VFS/VNODE interface changes from RELEASE to
 RELEASE. This would mean that the port would need to be upgraded
 for each release of FreeBSD.
 
 >Andrew Tanenbaum spells his name "Tanenbaum", not "Tannenbaum",
 >no matter how dearly you might like to see him dressed up as
 >a Christmas tree;
 
 I apologize to Andrew Tanenbaum for misspelling his name; I meant
 no disrespect to him and I will correct the error in the appropriate
 places. Thank-you for pointing that out to me; however, the remark
 that you made that I want to see him dressed up as a Christmas tree,
 seems a little desparate to me: Is that the extent of your criticism
 of this submittal?
 
 >next time, you may want to post the patch on the web and just provide
 >a URL in the PR rather than the entire patch. 30,000-line PRs aren't
 >much fun.
 
 Firstly, I posted the question in question@freebsd.org. It was suggested
 to me (by more than one response) that I should submit the diff as
 a PR.
 
 Secondly, It says in the handbook to submit large code as a PR.
 
 Thirdly, You, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, don't have to read the PR!
 
 			Ed
 			wea@llnl.gov
 
 
 
 

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