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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 2020 21:09:40 +0000
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r544347 - head/net/realtek-re-kmod
Message-ID:  <20200807210937.GA16516@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200807200552.GA12445@lonesome.com>
References:  <202008071939.077Jd0M5057058@repo.freebsd.org> <20200807200552.GA12445@lonesome.com>

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On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 08:05:53PM +0000, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 07:39:00PM +0000, Mark Linimon wrote:
> >   It *appears* that this code and sys/dev/re/if_re.c have common ancestry
> >   but this is not obvious to a casual observer.  ISTM there would be a
> >   very significant merge/re-engineering effort to produce a superset.
> 
> At the very *latest*, the common ancestor is before:
> 
>   https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=92739

Once you go back this far, you start to see more of the commonalities:

  https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/pci/if_rl.c?view=markup&pathrev=55058
  Thu Dec 23 19:05:58 1999 UTC (20 years, 7 months ago) by wpaul

Good luck to anyone trying to merge these two codebases -- you are going
to need it.

mcl



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