Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:26:33 +0100 From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ed Alley <wea@llnl.gov> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/47982: Response to Dag-Erling Message-ID: <xzpn0js3ogm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <200303172340.h2HNeD0R001479@freefall.freebsd.org> (Ed Alley's message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:40:13 -0800 (PST)") References: <200303172340.h2HNeD0R001479@freefall.freebsd.org>
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First some general advice: find out who you're talking to and adjust
your level of arrogance accordingly.
> 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.
Bollocks. There are currently at least five ports that install
loadable modules, and there have been others in the past.
> The VFS/VNODE interface changes from RELEASE to
> RELEASE.
That is simply not true.
> This would mean that the port would need to be upgraded
> for each release of FreeBSD.
Others seem to manage just fine.
> 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?
It's a joke. Tannebaum (double n) is the German word for "fir tree",
the kind commonly used as Christmas tree and celebrated in song ("O
Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum Wie treu sind deine Bl=E4tter", which is
strange because fir trees have needles, not leaves). The melody may
be familiar to you: at least four American states use it for their
state anthem.
> Secondly, It says in the handbook to submit large code as a PR.
To paraphrase J. R. R. Tolkien - "don't quote the handbook to me, I
wrote it". If the handbook really says to submit large patches in
problem reports, please tell me where so I can correct it.
The authoritative text on submitting FreeBSD problem reports is:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/problem-reports/
If you'd read it, you'd at least know the proper way to attach a patch
to a PR.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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