Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:44:19 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: chad@dcfinc.com, mike@smith.net.au, don@calis.BlackSun.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for feedback on xl (3c905/3c905B) driver Message-ID: <199809010444.VAA18816@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199808312129.VAA00492@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Aug 31, 98 09:29:51 pm"
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> > > Tracking either -stable or -current without reading the logs is like > > > anything else your mother warned you about. > > > > This seems like an escalation of responsibility for the user. > > I guess that depends on what counts as escalation. There's a tradeoff > between how much you're willing to risk vs. how much work you're > willing to do to avoid it. As I mentioned, I'm fairly certain that > Bill mentioned in his announcement about the xl driver that it replaced > the vx driver for the hardware it supports. As I mentioned in mail to Bill, I subscribe to and read the -stable mailing list. Nothing in it jumped out and said, "after Aug 24, if you build a new kernel your existing network interface will quit working." As you pointed out in earler e-mail, PCI device drivers imply a mutual exclusion, which means the upgrade was not optional. I'm probably thick, but I claim that was not obvious to a more-than-casual user. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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