Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:38:56 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP; new options for -current! Message-ID: <14762.953494736@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:14:47 %2B0800." <20000319131447.E6EF21CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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In message <20000319131447.E6EF21CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes : >If you are using old drivers that haven't been newbusified yet, you will >need to add 'options COMPAT_OLDPCI' and/or 'options COMPAT_OLDISA' to your >kernel configs and regenerate. Otherwise you will get compile failures. I think this is premature. I tried to newbusify if_mn.c, but after having added about 50 lines of code to replace the current about 10, I gave up. We need a highlevel wrapper for newbus before we should force people to upgrade the old-style drivers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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