From owner-freebsd-firewire Sun Oct 20 23:40:12 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 85DF437B404 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A92743E7B for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021021064008.JKEZ26524.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 06:40:08 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA21682; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:20:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Hidetoshi Shimokawa Cc: Murray Stokely , Matthew Reimer , firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFC? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > At Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:33:12 -0700 (PDT), > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > it has few hooks in other parts, and I am running it (not yet > > successfully though) in 4.7. (with only one minor edit from -current). > > > > > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message > > > > > The patch set is almost independ of the other part of the system. > It doesn't affect stability of the system without loading the > firewire modules. > (The cam-related patch has already been in 4-branch for a half year.) > > Julian, what kind of problem do you have with 4.7? > My (a month-old) 4.6-STABLE box works fine. I think it's working ok, but it didn't seem to find the dvd recorder I have on a SBP2<->atapi converter.. I sent you a dmesg last week.. but I have not been able to do more work on it yet. > > Any objection to MFC? I think it should be MFC'd but firat you should but the userland parts into /usr.sbin or somewhere.. They shouldn't be in the kernel sources. you can ask cvs@freebsd.org to repo copy them to wherever they should be.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message