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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:23:51 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        lile@FreeBSD.org (Larry Lile), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/dev/oltr if_oltr.c trlld.h trlldbm.c trlldhm.c trlldmac.c 
Message-ID:  <20000319072351.222521CC9@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>  of "Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:35:36 PST." <200003190635.WAA42402@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> 

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"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
> > lile        2000/03/18 17:53:58 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_3)
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >     sys/contrib/dev/oltr if_oltr.c trlld.h trlldbm.c trlldhm.c 
> >                          trlldmac.c 
> >   Log:
> >   MFC: New-bus Olicom driver
> >   
> >   o Replace the old "oltr" driver with the completely re-written
> >     new-bus Olicom driver, previously known as "ol".  The new
> >     driver unfortunately does not support ISA cards yet.
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Removal of support for _ANY_ hardware from -STABLE is frowned upon :-(.
> 
> This was fine to do in -current, marginal in 4.0, and defanitly should
> not have been merged back to RELENG_3.  Once the ISA card is supported,
> fine, but for right now this should be de-MFC'ed.

What bothered me was that it was labelled as 'New-bus Olicom driver' which
is kinda confusing since 3.x doesn't have newbus for the x86 - only the
Alpha has newbus that far back.  I haven't read the change yet so if it's
done with ifdefs then I'll shut up.

Cheers,
-Peter




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