From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 12: 9:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E682937B405 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:09:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1BK9Gi45579; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:09:16 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1BK9FL74145; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:09:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:08:31 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020211.130831.121669635.imp@village.org> To: flynn@energyhq.homeip.net Cc: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to find docs on newbus vs. cardbus vs. newcard From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020211183841.A51072@energyhq.homeip.net> References: <20020211155313.A25761@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020211.093708.27185453.imp@village.org> <20020211183841.A51072@energyhq.homeip.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20020211183841.A51072@energyhq.homeip.net> Miguel Mendez writes: : So, in your opinion, how hard would it be to MFC from a recent -CURRENT : to 4.5-RELEASE? More or less importing the stuff and little fixing or is : a major rewrite of some part needed? Because as it seems that no one is : going to do it any time soon I've put it in my TODO list, along with : other stuff and was just wondering if it's relativitely easy or too much : for a junior kernel hacker. It isn't a huge effort conceptutally, but there is a lot of infrastructure that CardBus depends on that isn't in -stable or only partially MFC'd. If someone wanted to start cranking on it, they could get it done in a few weeks worth of work. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message