Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:23:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Jon Inouye <jinouye@cse.ogi.edu> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 vs. 2.2-SNAP Message-ID: <199608141723.LAA27798@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960814095732.15198A-100000@indurain.cse.ogi.edu> References: <199608141650.KAA27565@rocky.mt.sri.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960814095732.15198A-100000@indurain.cse.ogi.edu>
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> Okay, I'll spend some time investigating why the PC card > ioctl PIOCSDRV fails for my modem card in 2.1.5 but not 2.2. Can you be more specific as to the 'failure'? Are you running it as root in 2.1.5? > > > If so, I may try to migrate some > > > 2.1 kernel modifications to 2.2-SNAP rather than to 2.1.5. > > > > What kernel modifications? The code in -current (therefore any of the > > recent SNAPS) is mostly functional already, although some of the Nomad > > 'features' don't yet exist in the -current code. And, given the lack of > > interest and help I've received it's not obvious when/if the code will > > ever make it into -current. (Yes, I'm a bit frustrated!) > > > > I have some kernel modifications to support physical media independence, > something folks at Intel call "media switching". [ Description deleted ] Yep, these kind of changes are definitely '2.2' material, so you'd be wasting your time converting them to 2.1.5 unless you wanted to maintain it all yourself. 2.1.5 is now 'dead' for the most part, and new features such as you're describing wouldn't be appropriate for that kind of release. As far as the discussions on the actual changes, you'd have to run them by Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>. They sound exciting, but he's the IP maintainer. I just try to make sure the drivers for laptop stuff 'Do The Right Thing' w/regards to the drivers. If the drivers are buggy it's not my responsiblity. :) Nate
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