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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 8:02 PM Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
wrote:

>
> > On 24. Oct 2019, at 7:56 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > What's the reason to keep these outside of the tree drivers?
>
> Unmodified and newer drivers for older FreeBSD versions.
>
> In particular, 11.x had unfortunate and latent regressions
> regarding link negotiation (chipset subset) and netmap support.
>
>
So the root cause is a regression in a FreeBSD RELEASE branch:
Why those known regressions are not fixed by an errata in place of a new
port ?