From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 13 21:24:44 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC09E37B71A; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:24:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA11385; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:24:30 -0800 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:24:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: Doug Barton , Chris Dillon , John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jonathan Lemon Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c if_fxpreg.h if_fxpvar.h In-Reply-To: <20010313231736.V78851@prism.flugsvamp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > 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. I agree with Jordan here. I *think* that most of our user community is sophisticated enough to either get new kernel source after a release, or, failing that, picking up a new if_fxp.ko which you will/can undoubtedly put on your freebsd web page. Perhaps a release note pointing to this is an alternate for those to timid to get new kernel source would work, no? -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message