From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 9 8: 9:42 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9321151EC; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 08:09:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA81362; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 08:08:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 08:08:52 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT Message-ID: <20000109080852.Q54775@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <20000109144403.E6D8E1CCE@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <20000109144403.E6D8E1CCE@overcee.netplex.com.au> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:44:03PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > A) Let the 'sym' take precedence over 'ncr' (default) > > Yes! I'm personally against this, as I feel it is the wrong thing to do in -STABLE. Changing a kernel driver out from under deployed stable systems is something we state we don't do. Don't forget it also causes people with wired down drive numbering to have to change things if they don't be extra carful when merging GENERIC changes into their kernel config files. Making it so that `sym' handles things that `ncr' does, is of our course a good thing to do. Then the user could have both `ncr' and `sym' in the config file and keep `ncr' as the driver for what they have today. For those with cards that both `ncr' and `sym' support, users can comment out `ncr' if they wish to use `sym'. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message