Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:24:47 -0600 From: "Brandon Gooch" <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: "Da Rock" <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au>, "stable-list freebsd" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: iwn driver on 7.1 [no vaps in RELENG_7] Message-ID: <179b97fb0901191924s5646189ctfc9e08f4bc531937@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1232419704.1138.57.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4973AE61.2040805@janh.de> <4974B4B2.5020308@freebsd.org> <20090120013823.GA62274@plebeian.afflictions.org> <1232419704.1138.57.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> wrote: > 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 : OTOH iwn is now out of date and someone needs to update it.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? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I don't know how mentoring works in the FreeBSD world or if a canonical process of mentoring even exists, but I would definitely be willing to participate. I know it would be a heck of a lot better than hacking around on this stuff by myself. -Brandon
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