The following reply was made to PR kern/34935; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Subject: Re: kern/34935: if_re_pci.c needs updating
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:42:46 +0900

 perry@piermont.com wrote:
 
 > We don't have the fix FreeBSD did for the checksum issue -- turning
 > off the checksum assists is not a fix.
 
 If this PR specifies only the checksum issue I'll handle it,
 but it doesn't.
 
 > If you can't trust
 > Bill Paul to be right on this, how could you trust him to have written
 > the correct driver in the first place? It is his code.
 
 By code inspection?
 
 I'd like to pull only code which I could confirm (by code inspection
 or on real hardware), and I won't pull any fixes blindly without
 proper approvals. For example, his old drivers had a bunch of
 vtophys() and didn't use bus_dma() at all, then people who pulled
 such code blindly were often blamed.
 
 > If you want to close the PR with "NetBSD doesn't want to fix problems
 > fixed in FreeBSD", please, go ahead.
 
 I just say this PR can't be assinged to me even if I will work
 some of such problems unless this PR mentions particular issues.
 
 If there is someone who will handle this PR, there is no problem.
 
 > This whole conversation has been useless from the beginning. I sent
 > that PR so I wouldn't forget to try to pull in the FreeBSD fixes, and
 > since then you've been sending mail saying "it is wrong of you to want
 > to update the driver". Well, I don't see why it is wrong.
 
 I'd say "it is wrong of you to want to update the driver blindly,"
 as we always say "it doesn't work unless it's right."
 ---
 Izumi Tsutsui