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| > Perhaps it would be a good idea to assign someone the task of just maintaing
| > the HARDWARE.TXT file, rather than expecting all developers to keep 
| > documentation up to date?
| 
| That is what I am currently doing (at least trying to.. ;-) for
| FreeBSD/alpha. But considering that the alpha community is considerably
| smaller this might be a problem in the much bigger x86 world.

Right, but as someone that reads all the commit messages, catching new
driver support and updating is more of a mundane task than anything.  If
maintainers emailed when they added new support (like when an entry in
UPDATING is needed) it's even easier.

-- 
Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org)
"Don't get even -- get odd!"


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