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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:13:38 +0900
From:      Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>, Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>, firewire@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MFC?
Message-ID:  <ybsfzv0tj3h.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210181132070.8006-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <20021017230742.K27351@freebsdmall.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210181132070.8006-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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At Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:33:12 -0700 (PDT),
Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> it has few hooks in other parts, and I am running it (not yet
> successfully though) in 4.7. (with only one minor edit from -current).
> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Murray Stokely wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:00:56AM -0500, Matthew Reimer wrote:
> > > Now that -stable is unfrozen, can the firewire driver be MFC'd?
> > 
> > 5.0-RELEASE will be the next official version of FreeBSD -- it's not
> > clear that this major new feature needs to be MFCed.  I presume it
> > hooks in with many different parts of the kernel and may be
> > non-trivial to MFC.  It hasn't been in -CURRENT very long yet anyway,
> > and would need more testing time regardless.
> > 
> >     - Murray
> > 
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> > 

The patch set is almost independ of the other part of the system.
It doesn't affect stability of the system without loading the
firewire modules.
(The cam-related patch has already been in 4-branch for a half year.)

Julian, what kind of problem do you have with 4.7?
My (a month-old) 4.6-STABLE box works fine.

Any objection to MFC?

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