Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:07:40 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [rfc] removing the NDISulator Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomrBCj5opCDEOCjOkmY84uCdqamC%2BQ1me0CGbjLpaf%2BHg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5265878B.1050809@yandex.ru> References: <CAJ-Vmo=ZO9aTMjaD0aZ8f-7CbTqLrYUkrHE3%2Bvpx2-6jDDYtiQ@mail.gmail.com> <81.4D.19454.84022625@cdptpa-oedge03> <5265878B.1050809@yandex.ru>
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On 21 October 2013 12:59, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> wrote: > On 19.10.2013 10:01, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I too would like to see more effort writing new Ethernet and wifi > > drivers and porting from other operating systems. > > > > But I would like to keep the NDISulator/NDISwrapper as a fallback. > > > > There are still wifi adapters, Ethernet too, where there is no > > FreeBSD driver (AR9271 for instance), or the FreeBSD driver is > > buggy. > > I'm agree. While there are still some devices without native drivers, > but that work via NDISulator, we should keep it. > It's honestly about time that these were updated, fixed and/or ported to FreeBSD. So, I'm still going forward with the plan. I won't be killing it during the 10 lifecycle. -adrian
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