From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 17 10:50:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ims1.imagestream.com (ims1.imagestream.com [205.159.243.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7135D37B401; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dhass@localhost) by ims1.imagestream.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA09447; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:50:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:50:48 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Hass To: Mike Smith Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , Leo Bicknell , Jim Bryant , MurrayTaylor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI In-Reply-To: <200110171750.f9HHo7s01640@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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