From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 20:32:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D8C16A4CE; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:32:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB7F43D1F; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:32:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEC27A3E1; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <41508FEB.6030203@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:32:43 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam References: <415083CC.7C041DFD@freebsd.org> <41508827.8010007@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Andre Oppermann cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AoE for 4.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:32:43 -0000 Sam wrote: >> I'm sure you mentionned this before, but why ar eyou not doing it >> against -current first? >> >> We generally don't allow changes to 4.x untill they have settled a >> bit in -current. (or 5.x) > > > I decided to write a 4.x driver thinking it would a) be easier to port > forward than backward, and b) would give me experience in the old kernel > to understand why certain changes were made for the new. > > [Thompson's Rule for First-Time Telescope Makers] > It is faster to make a four-inch mirror and then a six-inch mirror than > to make a six-inch mirror. hmmmm it might be the other way around here... > > > As for the single patch, I'll cook one up shortly. I just figured it > would be more of a pain to look through. I guess we are used to it. I can't recommend enough the utility of having a cvs mirror and using cvs to keep your work trees sync'd against FreeBSD. It is also a goodd way of making sure that you don't forget parts of the diff (e.g. Makefiles etc.) as CVS will pick up all the changed files. > > > Cheers, > > Sam