Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:38:16 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: open-vm-tools in base Message-ID: <20200110183816.GA6857@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoFNH2CNvJKKsrPYO7ek%2Bnk6H5USiEGv6CwNdm3pdOwag@mail.gmail.com> References: <46480be7-b1a1-4da8-97ea-c4b97b0b997c@www.fastmail.com> <20200110172541.GA6529@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CANCZdfoFNH2CNvJKKsrPYO7ek%2Bnk6H5USiEGv6CwNdm3pdOwag@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:44:38AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:26 AM Steve Kargl < > sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:55:23AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > > > > There is some precedent for this. Driver(s?) that were once a > > > part of the tools have been moved to base already. The VMXNET3 > > > driver is an example of this. > > > > > > > There is also precedent for removing a working driver from > > base and putting it into ports. See drm2. > > > > Not the best example to cite as there's been a lot of bumps with that and > the future distribution model is unclear to me. > Oddly enough I disagree. :-) Does the problems for open-vm-tools occur in freebsd-stable, where the kernel ABI should be stable? Freebsd-current is the development tree, and kernel changes might break 3rd party software. drm2 is a perfect example. In-base drm2 was working just fine and kept up-to-date with kernel changes when it was attached to the build. This seems to be what Josh wants for open-vm-tools. Once drm2 was detached from the build it was ocassionally broken, and someone (often times me) would find and report the breakage. If open-vm-tools is added to base, and then someone adds emulators/open-vm-tools-devel which supercedes in-base open-vm-tool, we're back to the in-base drm2 situation. Finally, open-vm-tools is used by what percentage of FreeBSD users? 1%? 5%? 50%? -- Steve
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