From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 8 8:59:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D969437B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:59:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA74480 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:11:26 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010308120015.01ee2eb0@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:15:09 -0500 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dennis Subject: if_fxp - the real point Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I dont have time for weenie flame wars with people who are more interested in ignoring problems than fixing them. The point here seems very simple. The intel NICs are on a large number of MBs and the eepro100 is the most popular card on the market. So why is there vitually no maintainer for arguably the most important driver in the freebsd tree when there are maintainers for scads of obscure, must less used cards? freebsd touts a "core team" which provides "direction"...does the "direction" include letting important drivers fall out of maintenance in favor of some crappy netgear card that chokes at 3,000pps? Keeping mainstream FreeBSD releases up to date is more important then working on next years release. Otherwise you just have another linux. DB PS: Whatever happened to all of the "support" that BSDI was going to provide? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message