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Subject: Re: Is there a reason that xhci isn't mentioned in NOTES in
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On 07/19/2012 03:29, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2012 11:38:11 Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 07/19/2012 02:17, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>> On Thursday 19 July 2012 11:14:42 Doug Barton wrote:
>>>> The xhci code in 8-stable works, but it's not mentioned in the NOTES
>>>> files in sys/conf, sys/i386/conf, or sys/amd64/conf. The module is
>>>> hooked up in sys/modules/usb/Makefile, and that's how I've been using it
>>>> so far. Is it not possible to compile this code into the kernel?
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>
>>> Yes, you can compile xhci into the kernel using "device xhci". Not sure
>>> who's responsible for updating NOTES.
>>
>> That would be you. :)  (Since AFAICS you added the code.) It should
>> almost certainly also be in the GENERIC files for the systems to which
>> it applies.
>>
>> In HEAD and stable/9 it's in sys/conf/NOTES, and
>> {amd64|i386}/conf/GENERIC; so the same should probably go for stable/8.
>> Not sure if the code works on stable/7 or not, but we're going to do
>> another release in stable/8 so it should be updated there for sure.
> 
> I've MFC'ed the NOTES bit, but I'm not sure about the GENERIC bit.
> 
> http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/238616

Thanks!  What are your concerns about adding it to GENERIC?


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