Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:03:58 -0500 (EST) From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AoE for 4.x Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409231519030.19882@athena> In-Reply-To: <20040923191423.GE61631@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409211531450.32120@athena> <41508FEB.6030203@elischer.org><20040923191423.GE61631@FreeBSD.org>
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>> I'm hoping to have a 5.x driver ready in the next month or two, >> probably patched against 5.3-stable when it's ready. > > Drivers go into the system in the order > -current > -stable > > This is basically the order we ALWAYS force, to avoid people doing > development on older branches and a continual loss of functionality. > > This means that you (or somebody else) will need to port it to -current > before it can go into 5.3-stable. The flip side of this argument is that I can't reasonably ask customers to pull up -current sources to use a storage product. They've got to be able to rely on it and I've got to be able to manage the service calls. Eventually I'll have patches against a -stable that's close enough to a -current that the patch will apply to both. I'm hoping 5.3 will be this way. This isn't news to me; I got the same thing from the linux folks. Sam
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