From owner-freebsd-firewire Fri Oct 18 6:47:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B3C37B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 06:47:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boromir.vpop.net (dns1.vpop.net [207.178.248.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B0A43EAC for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 06:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mreimer@vpop.net) Received: from vpop.net (bilbo.vpop.net [65.103.33.41]) by boromir.vpop.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1CF3A6270; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 06:46:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3DB010F3.90005@vpop.net> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:47:31 -0500 From: Matthew Reimer Organization: VPOP Technologies, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020829 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Stokely Cc: firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFC? References: <3DAEDEB8.1040502@vpop.net> <20021017230742.K27351@freebsdmall.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Murray Stokely wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:00:56AM -0500, Matthew Reimer wrote: > >>Now that -stable is unfrozen, can the firewire driver be MFC'd? > > 5.0-RELEASE will be the next official version of FreeBSD -- it's not > clear that this major new feature needs to be MFCed. I presume it > hooks in with many different parts of the kernel and may be > non-trivial to MFC. It hasn't been in -CURRENT very long yet anyway, > and would need more testing time regardless. > > - Murray I agree that firewire doesn't *need* to be MFCed, but doesn't -stable policy allow low-impact new features to be MFCed? The firewire patches at http://people.freebsd.org/~simokawa/ which were committed to -current have worked for a long time with both 4.x and 5.x, and only add new files in /sys/dev/firewire, touching nothing else. These patches look as trivial to MFC as possible (granting that firewire in -current has been tweaked a little since it was imported). Does that affect the possibility of an MFC? Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message