From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 15 10: 3:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rainey.blueneptune.com (rainey.blueneptune.com [209.133.45.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4856814FD0 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aland@blueneptune.com) Received: from blueneptune.com (ppp161.blueneptune.com [209.133.45.161]) by rainey.blueneptune.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA06949; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:02:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aland@blueneptune.com) Message-ID: <36ED4947.9386EEF0@blueneptune.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:54:15 -0800 From: Alan DuBoff Reply-To: aland@SoftOrchestra.com Organization: Software Orchestration, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.8-Release vs. 3.1-Release References: <199903151707.JAA13144@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > Writing a driver for 2.2.x will leave you with an orphan; if you plan > on doing driver development you should start with -current or the most > recent RELEASE as a minimum. How can it be that I would be left with an orphan? Surely, device drivers don't break on future releases, or are not supposed to, right? IOW, the drivers don't need to be re-written for each release, do they? -- Alan DuBoff - Conductor Software Orchestration, Inc. aland@SoftOrchestra.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message