From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 1 13: 8:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C588537B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A46343E6E for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 86415 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Oct 2002 20:08:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:08:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: current@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org Cc: keramida@freebsd.org Subject: Announce: informal quirk maintainer Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There has been some confusion regarding how to add new quirks to the SCSI layer, when quirks are needed, and who is responsible. I will be taking ownership of quirk maintenance to help clarify and expedite things. The goal is to interoperate with as much hardware as possible while keeping the table attributed and in well-maintained order. Here are a few guidelines: 1. All quirks submissions must go through GNATS PR db. This is to facilitate tracking and archival of discussion. 2. A quirk is only needed if the device hangs or refuses to operate without it. 3. Please follow the quirk submission guidelines to help things proceed quickly: http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/quirks.html 4. Please do not commit quirks directly. 5. GNATS maintainers should assign quirk-related PRs to njl@ In return, I will be responsive and help get your devices working. Please let me know if there are any questions. Thanks, Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message