8.x grudges

[Lucas Holt]

On 07/08/10 17:06, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2010-Jul-07 14:22:22 -0400, "Mikhail T."<mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com>  wrote:
>    
>> In no particular order:
>>
>>    1.
>>       A picture, that one of the systems was displaying at boot (and
>>       then used as a screen-saver),  stopped showing properly. The
>>       colors are right, but the picture is distorted beyond recognition.
>>       The relevant part of loader.conf is:
>>
>>           splash_pcx_load="YES"
>>           vesa_load="YES"
>>           bitmap_load="YES"
>>           bitmap_name="/boot/187426-9-quokka-dreaming.pcx"
>>      
> It's a bit difficult to provide any useful input without some idea
> of what the picture should and does look like.  Can you please post
> the actual bitmap as well as a picture of your screen showing the
> problem.
>
>    
>>    3.
>>       Likewise, having "device ugen" breaks config(8) -- another
>>       undocumented incompatibility.
>>      
> Can you please advise where it is documented that "device ugen"
> is valid in a FreeBSD-8 config file?
>
NAME
      ugen -- USB generic device support

SYNOPSIS
      To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line 
in your
      kernel configuration file:

            device ugen

      Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
      following line in loader.conf(5):

            ugen_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
      The ugen driver provides support for all USB devices that do not 
have a
      special driver.  It supports access to all parts of the device, 
but not
      in a way that is as convenient as a special purpose driver.

      There can be up to 127 USB devices connected to a USB bus.  Each USB
      device can have up to 16 endpoints.  Each of these endpoints will 
commu-
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uname -a
FreeBSD lholt-desktop.primemediaanalysis.com 8.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 
8.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue May 25 20:54:11 UTC 2010     
root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

I'm not going to argue in favor of any points in this rant, but it is in 
the man page.  As someone who's done some release engineering and worked 
with sysinstall on my own project, I can tell you it's a real pain and 
developers in the FreeBSD community deserve courtesy.  Most of us work 
on open source for free in our own time, and it's impossible to test 
every possible configuration before a release.

Luke