Subject: Re: timed_thaw change
To: None <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/25/2001 18:45:33
Matthew Jacob writes:
>Well- if the people reporting problems can't send mail saying what they are, I
>can't fix the issue. I'm a little ticked that all I get was mail from Frank
>saying "it broke things" with zero details. Was there mail from someone other
>than Frank? ICB does *not* count as information. I searched a couple of the
>mail lists but saw nothing.

Relax, don't take it personally.  There was mail, you just missed it.  

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2001/09/20/0001.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2001/09/20/0007.html

And here's the mentioned PR:

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=14013

>Like I said, I'll do some more testing, but w/o supporting details and knowing
>what this does, I'm inclined to think this is not the actual issue. Since the
>problems it solves were agreed upon by Manuel and Jason and I, I'm inclined to
>think that the change is reasonable.

The change may be reasonable, but if it's causing hangs on i386, that needs
to be addressed, no?

:: Mike ::