From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 03:24:49 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 640BE106564A for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:24:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f17.google.com (mail-bw0-f17.google.com [209.85.218.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F2C8FC0A for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: by bwz10 with SMTP id 10so83600bwz.19 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:24:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=MiGShLZOomi0HquB4VK4bSFBaeG0C9FpDvddEZ3MaTg=; b=wVmvYqeBGuKLCwcsEwtT+uRQsi3Nsq31E4keBC2Axfg34+NL4S8vUvB0mnsjMd7Q68 BhynXX9DFjNfLV/dQ57ADRecCdpn2h+6C/WDLgHLBvmZUaibYxyCsHwKErJbsr/tZZ99 5LA3OlgAchUbCawgZyWYPxkagb99Nz6w9+rZo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=YKiTtBt6a8ry+t8srdptLb9Fn+jIHkntFtQuzCv3lpKfUPUCncvg5mkEwQqUfWjVX4 AOevXqBjz4ijZGVmEK9UY0e4k9LjsuLAKmkqJtZt97bQ5SV46iOi6qvol0tGx3KBLDtg Kyj3hnYHI1Qoa1x1VQc9rybj5PkEzaTX7YQfM= Received: by 10.181.145.7 with SMTP id x7mr2310228bkn.177.1232421887676; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:24:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.222.16 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:24:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <179b97fb0901191924s5646189ctfc9e08f4bc531937@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:24:47 -0600 From: "Brandon Gooch" To: "Da Rock" , "stable-list freebsd" In-Reply-To: <1232419704.1138.57.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4973AE61.2040805@janh.de> <4974B4B2.5020308@freebsd.org> <20090120013823.GA62274@plebeian.afflictions.org> <1232419704.1138.57.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: 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 03:24:49 -0000 On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Da Rock 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