Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:23:41 -0700 From: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> To: ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: twa driver needs updating Message-ID: <4718F62D.7070704@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <4E478C75-35D0-47EA-A4A3-05D06A167A51@emeraldcityeg.com> References: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> <4718EC36.7090401@delphij.net> <4E478C75-35D0-47EA-A4A3-05D06A167A51@emeraldcityeg.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote: > Thank you for redirecting my message. I've been keeping these machines > updated on RELENG_6_2 because I have a couple pre-compiled hardware > drivers I must use which I do not have kernel source for. I just did a > csup/buildkernel last week on the latest p8 source tree and tested the > included twa driver and it was not up to date. Would it be possible to > get the twa driver pushed back into RELENG_6_2? I think the answer would be "No, the driver would not be pushed back into RELENG_6_2" because a new release is under way and it is not (IMO, correct me if I'm incorrect) a bug affects most if not all twa(4) owners which will call for a driver upgrade, but that's only my $0.02, as I'm not one of the release engineers nor I am the security officer, who has the authority to maintain the errata branch. Could you please download a RELENG_6 snapshot and try if it worked with your binary drivers? Once a '.0 release' is published, the RELENG_* branches would enter a KBI/ABI compatibility freeze so you can expect that your driver, even you don't have source code, should be able to run on the same latest RELENG_* code. That's said, your RELENG_6_2 binary driver *should* work just fine on RELENG_6. BTW. Could you tell us what your hardware is? Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHGPYtOfuToMruuMARCgHOAJ46gI6q+P29CWPVxoJklMB3hM0KwQCeIWGy hQuIfyCfQWL171iQNj9L9Qc= =ku4S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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