Bug 35723
| Summary: | le(4) page doesn't warn about likely system crashes. | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Gary W. Swearingen <swear> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Giorgos Keramidas <keramida> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
Gary W. Swearingen
2002-03-10 04:50:01 UTC
Here's a patch to the man page that puts in a BUGS section, I left it in the traditional place, though. *** le.4.old Fri Mar 15 10:57:26 2002 --- le.4 Fri Mar 15 10:57:42 2002 *************** *** 93,95 **** --- 93,99 ---- .An Matt Thomas . This manual page was written by .An David E. O'Brien . + .Sh BUGS + This driver has been causing kernel panics since 4.0-RELEASE, and appears to be no + longer actively maintained. PR misc/18641 describes the known issues that have been + submitted. Josh Ceri wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:21:56AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
>
>>Ceri wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there any reason not to commit this? I ran into yet another lost
>>>>soul on irc tonight trying to get this driver to work.
>>>>
>>>>*** le.4.old Fri Mar 15 10:57:26 2002
>>>>--- le.4 Fri Mar 15 10:57:42 2002
>>>>***************
>>>>*** 93,95 ****
>>>>--- 93,99 ----
>>>> .An Matt Thomas .
>>>> This manual page was written by
>>>> .An David E. O'Brien .
>>>>+ .Sh BUGS
>>>>+ This driver has been causing kernel panics since 4.0-RELEASE, and
>>>>appears to be no
>>>>+ longer actively maintained. PR misc/18641 describes the known
>>>>issues that have been
>>>>+ submitted.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Well I don't think we should refer to PRs in manpages for one.
>>>
>>>
>>hmmm, Ceri, why don't we cut from the PR listing down?
>>
>
> Well I also don't think that we should say "this driver...appears to be
> no longer actively maintained".
> Which means that I don't like two thirds of the suggested patch, which
> is really quite a lot for a 27 word patch.
>
> Far better would something like "This driver causes kernel panics".
> And I don't like that either :)
>
> Ceri
>
>
This driver causes inconsistancies (sp, use i/aspell) and can
sometimes lead to kernel panics.
This driver is currently obsolete and may cause system instability,
if this occurs please try another driver or card.
Can we email the maintainer and find out if their is another driver
that can be used in its place, maybe list that? How do you feel
about the above sentances? I know it will be ``raising barriers'' for
users, but they should be warned about a driver known to cause
panics. On the other hand, I do not like mentioning the other card
idea. Catch 22?
--
Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes
www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front
www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
Adding to audit trail: > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:00:56 -0600 > Message-ID: <005a01c242da$3a7a6a00$2784412f@ca.nortel.com> > From: "Samuel Chow" <cyschow@shaw.ca> > Subject: docs/35723 > > Hi guys, > > I think docs/35723 can be closed. The le(4) driver > is working now. I tested it yesterday night on -STABLE. > > --- > Samuel Chow > cyschow@shaw.ca State Changed From-To: open->feedback Gary, does the problem persist? Samuel Chow seems to have this working. Can you try with onne of the more recent 4.x RELEASE versions and see if this is still a problem? State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Feedback from Gary at Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:59:38 +0300 seems to indicate that there are this is an old, saved problem. Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida |
