From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 14 00:40:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA21695 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA21690 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA13044; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:35:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd013039; Sun Dec 14 00:35:23 1997 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:32:45 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed code merge, objections? In-Reply-To: <199712131504.QAA22341@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk iHmmmmmm I thought that new drivers (that don't change existing functionality) could be ADDED to -stable if deemed sufficiently useful, and they have proved themselves in -current. On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > "J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" wrote: > > > I've been told there is no official policy on this, so I want some > > feedback. I am considering currently a merge of the alog driver > > (Industrial Computer Source AIO8-P) into -stable. > > -stable is not meant to accumulate new features from -current. Unless > there are strong reasons, new drivers should not migrate there. This > _is_ official policy. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >