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To: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu>
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Subject: Re: FDDI DRIVER: The curtain is going down on 2.1-stable in 5 days! 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 17:24:40 -0800
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>Matt Thomas mentioned sending updated FDDI code last summer which has at
>least one fix for fast CPUs.  Additionally the 'unknown packet type'
>messages which have become a FAQ are zapped in the updated code. 
>
>Considering the relatively small amount of work to integrate and the
>highly reliable source of the code, do you think it could be committed
>prior to 2.1.6? 

   Actually, it doesn't look that trivial to me. It requires a file
reorganization at the very least.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project