Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 08:48:26 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new ath hal (take 2) Message-ID: <445F684A.1080501@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <200605080845.18125.joao@matik.com.br> References: <445D3C94.10102@errno.com> <200605072146.07500.joao@matik.com.br> <445E9A3D.9090909@errno.com> <200605080845.18125.joao@matik.com.br>
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If I had intended stable users to try this code I would have: 1. posted to stable@ 2. provided specific changes for those users (e.g. a patch) You will note my initial post about a new hal was done to both mailing lists. I did not post this hal to stable because I did not want to deal with people complaining that things did not work because they had problems back-patching the necessary changes. I included info in my original post for those folks running current that were going to do it anyway so they could save some time. I replied to your post because all it did was set people up for failures that would result in mail to me that I don't have time to handle. Then those people would either get frustrated by not getting an answer or think there was some problem that wasn't being fixed. I treat the stable src tree VERY carefully. I do not inflict pain on users running stable. I do not arbitrarily commit changes that require people to manually alter their system or otherwise deal with binary incompatibilities. I treat stable as a production code base and only apply changes that are considered well-tested and appropriate to run in a production environment. Sam
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