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Date:      Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:00:26 +0400
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.org, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: em(4) update for 6-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20060807080026.GK96644@cell.sick.ru>
In-Reply-To: <44D6884C.20903@thebeastie.org>
References:  <20060803100341.GQ96644@FreeBSD.org> <ef10de9a0608031614y171d0c85g498cc9893dbbd714@mail.gmail.com> <20060804091645.GS96644@cell.sick.ru> <44D6884C.20903@thebeastie.org>

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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:24:44AM +1000, Michael Vince wrote:
M> >On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:14:35PM -0700, Nikolas Britton wrote:
M> >N> >First, it significantly improves perfromance of the driver
M> >N> >under high pps load.
M> >N> >Second, it adds support for few new chips.
M> >N> >
M> >N> >You need to update your system to fresh RELENG_6. The driver
M> >N> >will not compile on 6.1-RELEASE.
M> >N> 
M> >N> Why will it not compile on 6.1?
M> >
M> >Because it uses new taskqueue API not yet present in 6.1-RELEASE.
M> >
M> Sounds good,
M> I will have to wait till 6.2release before using it, Stable just isn't 
M> as stable as it used to be.

If everyone avoid using RELENG branch, it won't get any more stable.
Subseqently the releases (that are cut from RELENG branch) will get
less testing, and thus will be less stable.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE



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