From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 13 23:50:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA18347 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 23:50:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA18338 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 23:50:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id HAA01235; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 07:23:43 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199712140623.HAA01235@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Proposed code merge, objections? To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 07:23:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199712140736.SAA05671@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Dec 14, 97 06:06:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > -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. > > Particularly in the case of Jamil's driver, which is unlikely to be > particularly useful to anyone other than Jamil as anything other than a > sample. Still, it has a purpose. When I have a new piece of hardware I often have to go to Linux to find a driver (i.e. some source code documenting how to use it). > If a feature is nonintrusive and subject to popular demand, migration > after a vetting period in -current is worth considering. Also bear in > mind that often things would make it back to -stable if there was > someone that was a) using the feature and b) had the time and resources > (eg. a -stable system) to do the backport with. Jamil is doing a) and b), but I concede that in this case there might not be popular demand. Cheers Luigi