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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2018 15:18:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r330451 - in stable/11/sys: dev/iwm dev/otus dev/usb/wlan net80211
Message-ID:  <201803072318.w27NIrI6056501@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmQBX_Oq_BW-6K94obSGhigRqMtkhhYvOCypoiVte85MQ@mail.gmail.com>

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> On 7 March 2018 at 09:37, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 06, 2018 06:46:37 PM Eitan Adler wrote:
> >> On 6 March 2018 at 08:26, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> > On Monday, March 05, 2018 07:13:59 PM Eitan Adler wrote:
> >> >> On 5 March 2018 at 10:08, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> >> > On Monday, March 05, 2018 07:54:58 AM Eitan Adler wrote:
> >> >> >> Author: eadler
> >> >> >> Date: Mon Mar  5 07:54:57 2018
> >> >> >> New Revision: 330451
> >> >> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/330451
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Log:
> >> >> >>   MFC r306837:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>   [net80211] extend the ieee80211_rx_stats struct to include more information.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Have you thought about the KBI implications of this change and some of the
> >> >> > other changes you've merged?
> >> >>
> >> >> I do have a copy of the modules from 11.1 and have loaded them at
> >> >> various points in time after merging. That said, I am not perfect.
> >> >> Unfortunately, my -STABLE box did not have fully functioning drivers
> >> >> before these changes so its difficult to test anything beyond "loads
> >> >> and does not panic.". I havn't done so today yet, but that will happen
> >> >> soon.
> >> >>
> >> >> Ensuring these things work through code inspection is certainly
> >> >> possible and I've skipped over several changes as a result.
> >> >
> >> > Loading a module doesn't alone doesn't actually test for breakage.
> >>
> >> I'm aware. In this case I should likely just revert this change since
> >> its a pretty blatant break.
> >
> > I suspect many of these changes for iwm, etc. are all intertwined so I'm not
> > sure if you can leave out individual ones.
> 
> Possibly. I do have iwm working on my laptop though. I also know of
> one open PR assigned to me w.r.t. a model I don't own. I'll be
> addressing it some time this week.

I believe I also have a tester of stable/11 iwm patches avaliable,
he has an 8265?

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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