From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 03:04:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035231065672 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:04:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18838FC08 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:04:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.199] (unknown [202.172.126.254]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C0D5C2F460 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:50:02 +1100 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20090120013823.GA62274@plebeian.afflictions.org> References: <4973AE61.2040805@janh.de> <4974B4B2.5020308@freebsd.org> <20090120013823.GA62274@plebeian.afflictions.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:48:24 +1000 Message-Id: <1232419704.1138.57.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: iwn driver on 7.1 [no vaps in RELENG_7] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:04:28 -0000 On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 20:38 -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > Sam Leffler wrote: > : OTOH iwn is now out of date and someone needs to update it. There's > : newer firmware that is supposed to fix many of the bugs I hit when I > : worked on the driver (and Intel refused to acknowledge) and obsd has > : added support for newer parts that people want. It'd be great if > : someone wanted to take over this driver. > > I've been working on this driver for the past few weeks (Christmas provided > a healthy distraction), but it's a steep learning curve for a novice C > coder. If anyone wants to work on this, let me know, as I have a small > portion of the work already done. > > - Damian I'm willing to work on it (doing so now), but from what you have said here it sounds like you're in the same boat as myself as I'm very new to this too :) What about collaboration between us with a Freebsd core team mentor? Is this possible? Code, test, then send the new code through the core team member for approval as well as hints to get the job done?