Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jun 1998 11:40:47 -0400 | From | Scott Lampert <> | Subject | I should RTFM more :) (was Re: Strange Ethernet Device Errors in 2.1.106/7) |
| |
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 10:10:09AM -0400, Chris Ricker wrote: > FWIW, that particular information (about needing to upgrade ifconfig) has > been in the Changes file a very long time. Even if I did things as you > propose, you'd not have noticed because it wouldn't have been in the > "Changes since the last version" section.... See Keith Owen's comments as > well.... > > Also, keep in mind that multiple people tend to submit patches for > Changes, which causes confusion (as evidenced by the two different > comments about ip chains in the current file), and that the Changes file > is always a few releases behing the kernel since it's maintained by users > (myself ;-) submitting patches to Linus as things break. > > I try to basically group things by topic (and then chronologically w/in > topics) simply because that's easiest for most people to use. In your > case, you're having a network problem that's new, so go to the networking > section and look towards the bottom if you can't spare the time to read > all the paragraphs. Again, patches from multiple sources and my own > carelessness have jumbled this up as well....
I wasn't trying to criticize your work, don't get me wrong. :) It just seems to me that a change that absolutely requires an upgrade to a newer version of core system software should be more noticeable than the one sentence blurb tacked onto the end of a paragraph about IPv6. I'll just be sure to read the Changes file much more carefully from now on. It will certainly avoid all the exasperation directed towards me! :) -Scott
-- Scott Lampert | Home Page: http://www.heavymetal.org <fortunato@heavymetal.org> | PGP Key: finger fortunato@heavymetal.org "Singe the Hare Hare, +----------------------------------------- dance the Hoochie Koo!"
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
| |