From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 9 10:19: 8 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA285153C5; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 10:19:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA19795; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 10:19:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 10:19:01 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200001091819.KAA19795@apollo.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Peter Wemm , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT References: <20000109144403.E6D8E1CCE@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20000109080852.Q54775@relay.nuxi.com> 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) Don't we still have the issue of the ncr<->fxp interaction causing crashes? I was under the impression that this problem didn't occur with the sym driver and because of that the sym driver was given precedence... -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message