From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5RHFWnC019254 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:15:32 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5RHFWFP019253 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:15:32 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from av.mvista.com (gateway-1237.mvista.com [12.44.186.158]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5RHFPnC019246; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:15:25 -0700 Received: from mvista.com (av [127.0.0.1]) by av.mvista.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06877; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:18:46 -0700 Message-ID: <3D1B4787.5030709@mvista.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:12:39 -0700 From: Jun Sun User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: Ralf Baechle , Ladislav Michl , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [patch] linux: DBE/IBE handling rewrite References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Jun Sun wrote: > > >>Why do I have a sense we are under a dictatorship rather than a democratic >>community? :-( >> > > It's a pity you have such a feeling. I'm looking forward to seeing a > better replacement from you. But why didn't you fix the code earlier, > OTOH? You missed the point - I like to see some open discussions before any big changes to MIPS. If you look back of all the significant changes made to the MIPS tree, you will see a high percentage of them went in without any open discussion or pre-warning. It is this context that brought out :-(. Not your patch per se. Once in while I hop into other communities. I get a feeling they appear to be doing better than us in this regard. And I like that feeling. Jun