Subject: Re: sys/dev/ic/z8530tty.c 1.52 -> 1.53 is broken.
To: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/25/1999 09:54:17
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> What particularly impresses me about this bug is that several months
> (maybe more than a year) ago I explained to Bill several times why
> this change wouldn't work as is. I sincerely hope that some day
> people will start LISTENING when the author of a piece of code tells
> them their change WON'T WORK CORRECTLY; I'm getting rather tired of
> repeating this experiment.
Charles, once you explained the problem, I agreed that the third of the
changes was wrong (well, it wasn't "the third change" at the time but..).
I forgot that explanation when commiting this latest change.
I just committed a fix.
Take care,
Bill