From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 10: 7:49 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from vega.dmnshq.net (vega.dmnshq.net [194.19.34.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC7ED37B71D; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:07:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@vega.dmnshq.net) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by vega.dmnshq.net (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f2EI7f817988; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:07:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from eivind) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:07:40 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Cc: Jonathan Lemon Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c if_fxpreg.h if_fxpvar.h Message-ID: <20010314190740.A17821@thinksec.com> References: <20010313231736.V78851@prism.flugsvamp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:24:26PM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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