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Subject: Re: Request for testing: ata(4) MFC
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Søren Schmidt wrote:
> I'm not sure how far this has gone into 7 yet, but it would be a "real 
> cool thing"(tm) to have the latest ATA module work back into 7.1 as 
> well. Its a no brainer actually with no functional changes other than 
> the possibility to load chipset specific code as modules.
> I know that a few HW vendors out there would *LOVE* this so they could 
> make modules for their HW to support FreeBSD on new fancy HW, mind you 
> that might be binary modules but still better than no support at all. 
> That would also offload the work on yours truely to concentrate on new 
> functionality etc instead of hunting new HW support all the time.

Do you mean that it will be not bad if i'll update patch? :)

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov