Wolfgang, to be honest, it`s not my problem that some people on the net seem to be on a personal crusade to tell other people how to post to mailinglists or how to write email.
My life does not depend on u-boot. I did not only ask for help, but i also offered help (giving valuable end-user input to make u-boot run better on pogoplug/dockstar - Mind that dockstar is currently on sale at Atelco for Eur 24,90. That is a killer price for 1,2Ghz ARM Kirkwood SoC with 128M) If you don`t like me or like my mail style - no problem, i can go away and switch to another bootloader or maybe even other hardware platform. What I got from you for my postings was nothing but negative. I was being accused that I did not this or I did not that. In other words, you even told me to be an idiot, as I should go read a document how to ask SMART questions. So, if this list is also for users, I would recommend to be more tolerant on how users write mails! I`m no C-coder and there are people in this world that give not that much attention to make their Ascii look perfect on screen. Don`t you think that those two mails from you were a little bit more offensive than my laxly dealing with mail formatting was offensive to all the list members alltogether ? I don`t even know how to limit chars in my webmailer, and even Linus Torvalds is fine with more than 80 chars per line (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/17/229 ) So, we either can say a friendly "Hello" now, or you may kick me off this list and scare me away from u-boot for the rest of my life. Sorry if that have been harsh words now, but i was really pissed and it is a very long time ago that is got such negative response from a project`s owner to initial postings on a mailing list. If we can be above such things now, i suggest we concentrate on the issue. If you`re ok with that, here we go (otherwise: please ignore!): > You completely fail to explain which exact version of U-Boot you are > running - it seems to be a locally modified one, probably with > out-of-tree patches to support that Dockstar board which is not known > in the mainline U-Boot repository. How should we be able to comment > on code we don't even know? Apparently you are right. I did not realize that this is a modified version ( http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/build_uboot.htm ) and apparently the changes (add pogoplug/dockstar, seems much LED stuff) have never been sent upstream. Anyway,the patch at http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/uboot.mtd3.patch does not seem to poke into the u-boot usb code, so i wonder if the changes can be source of the problem. I have seen posts from sheevaplug users which report similar issue, and as it seems, official support for sheevaplug is already in u-boot. Maybe there is a way to add official support for pogoplug and dockstar, as this out-of-tree stuff sucks big.... So, if this is not for the u-boot list, please somebody give an advice on how to proceed for resolving this issue. regards Roland ps: reference to the initial post, unintentionally hijacking another thread: http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-September/077489.html From: "Wolfgang Denk" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:40 AM To: <[email protected]> Cc: Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] usb: fix usb start problem with SMSC USB hub and Toshiba USB stick > Dear [email protected], > > In message <899533205.349626.1285022229052.javamail.fm...@mwmweb063> you > wrote: >> pardon, that was not my intention, nor was it my intention to infringe list >> rules. so, this is for developers/experts - not for users and bug-reporte >> rs? > > This list is for ALL discussions about U-Boot: users, bug-reporters, > developers, etc. > > But we expect that everybody who posts here follows some basic > Netiquette. > > You don't. For example, Netiquette says to keep your line length below > some 70 characters or so. > > You don't even after being told. I asked you explicitly NOT to top > post / full quote, and pointed you to rules for correct quoting. You > ignore that. > >> i`m spending more than half of this evening with this issue, trying to find >> a solution and trying to provide information for a problem affecting manyr >> people and which seems to exist in u-boot. > > I also pointed you to a document that explains how to ask smart > questions, but it seems you ignored this hint as well. > > You completely fail to explain which exact version of U-Boot you are > running - it seems to be a locally modified one, probably with > out-of-tree patches to support that Dockstar board which is not known > in the mainline U-Boot repository. How should we be able to comment > on code we don't even know? > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] > "Have you lived in this village all your life?" "No, not yet." ___________________________________________________________ Neu: WEB.DE De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: https://produkte.web.de/go/demail02 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
