Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:19:13 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed code merge, objections? Message-ID: <199712141819.TAA29546@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <E0xgu71-0000CE-00@ash3.doc.ic.ac.uk> References: <E0xgu71-0000CE-00@ash3.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) wrote: >> -stable is not meant to accumulate new features from -current. Unless >> there are strong reasons, new drivers should not migrate there. This >> _is_ official policy. > > Does this include drivers for common peripherals such as network cards > and SCSI controllers? Well, i wrote `strong reasons' (and other folks even made that less restrictive). A strong reason is, of course, driver changes due to market changes, like merging drivers for new chips where the older chips are getting rare already. The basic questions are: .. is there actually demand for it (which i doubt for aio/alog)? .. is the change non-intrusive enough to make fatal problems in -stable unlikely? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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