Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:50:48 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Hass <dhass@imagestream.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>, MurrayTaylor <taylorm@bytecraft.au.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011017124937.7295B-100000@ims1.imagestream.com> In-Reply-To: <200110171750.f9HHo7s01640@mass.dis.org>
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> > If anyone has an interest in adding support for the SBS WAN cards to > > FreeBSD, feel free to contact me. I'll be glad to help. > > Just package your driver with your cards, or stick it on your support > site. The whole point being that you don't *have* to get your code into > the tree; you can maintain it successfully without either a) introducing > overhead for us handling your module, or b) introducing latency for you > trying to push a new version through our release process. > > I get the impression you haven't quite gotten the idea here yet; you > don't *need* to be in the base distribution, and in many cases it's > better not to be simply because it involves less work for everyone. O.k.--one more message. :-) We don't want to be in the base distribution. Never have wanted to be, nor have I indicated in my messages that we wanted to be. All we would like to see drivers for FreeBSD available in the market. Period. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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