Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:07:40 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c if_fxpreg.h if_fxpvar.h Message-ID: <20010314190740.A17821@thinksec.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103132122460.8869-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:24:26PM -0800 References: <20010313231736.V78851@prism.flugsvamp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103132122460.8869-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:24:26PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > 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? Perhaps, but if we are going to try to support people using this code without upgrading their kernel source, my personal suggestion would be to wrap up both pieces of code so you could activate the new code by options USE_BETA_FXP or similar, and point the users at this. Having them map to different devices or having the users play with KLDs sounds like a recipe for future trouble. Or just tell them to upgrade (though that way we loose the ability to get the users of 4.3-RELEASE to test the code, and I at least would like to keep the fxp as a "golden" network card...) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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