Erik Osterholm wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:56:15PM +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> On 10/01/2008, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze_at_bsdforen.de> wrote: >> >> This is the thing though. Its working for the developers, its not >> working for the users, so how do you think it'll get fixed? >> >>> The second big problem is the handling of regressions. PRs remain >>> unanswered or the reporters are told that the regressions they >>> report do not exist. Some of our members have even suffered the >>> experience that they developed a patch, but it simply was ignored >>> or turned down for the reason that it was a "Linux solution". >>> Especially frustrating for those among us who have never looked at >>> Linux code. >> Whats the PR number? > > I'm coming in in the middle of this thread, but here's one from July > 2006: > kern/100839 > > No one from the FreeBSD community ever responded on it. I thought > that I'd even suggested removing the driver entirely, due to this > showstopping bug, and removing its listing as compatible, but now I > can't find an archived reference, so maybe it was in my head. > > I love FreeBSD, and I used it on a daily basis, but there's an > example, if you're genuinely interested. > > Erik Yeah, that's a pretty good example of hardware with no real maintainer in the FreeBSD community. Actually it does look like yongari_at_ worked on it a couple of months ago, so you might want to bring it to his attention. KrisReceived on Thu Jan 10 2008 - 19:40:52 UTC
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