From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 16:10:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6200C106566B for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:10:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EAD8FC14 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:10:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 84EFB56025; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:09:59 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:09:59 +0000 From: Mark Linimon To: Paul Mather Message-ID: <20101124160959.GB24688@lonesome.com> References: <20101124053255.GA15123@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: FreeBSD Stable , Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: Support for Areca ARC-1300-4X on 8-STABLE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:10:00 -0000 On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:01:31AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > I'd also hope that such a vendor would be contributing its drivers > directly into the source tree rather than having a separate set of > patches or downloads for end-users to fiddle about with. In a perfect world, yes, but not all vendors currently do this. The have their own release cycles and source repositories, as we have ours: in some cases, it takes a non-trivial amount of effort to coordinate the two. I'm always happy to see closer cooperation, of course. mcl