Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:17:36 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c if_fxpreg.h if_fxpvar.h Message-ID: <20010313231736.V78851@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <3AAEFD2E.38EE7235@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103131332560.52535-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> <3AAEFD2E.38EE7235@gorean.org>
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:10:06PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Chris Dillon wrote: > > > If there is sufficient time to test this out, it would be a good MFC > > candidate. > > With all due respect to jlemon, this is the classic example of something > that should not be mfc'ed right before -release. Given the huge installed > base of fxp cards any glitch, no matter how obscure or justifiably > overlooked will be disasterous. What we have works well, this can wait till > after the release. Well, actually, I wanted to bring this into 4.3 as 'nfxp', so that the old driver would still be the default, but the new driver would be available for those people who had otherwise non-working cards. Jordan didn't feel that this was a good idea, saying that calling anything nfoo tends to become permanent, and renaming things at a later date just causes confusion. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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