Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 12:07:25 -0700 From: Matthew Macy <mat.macy@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> Cc: jmaloney@ixsystems.com, Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <CAPrugNqU6b-VOEVH=E0QROQq6OYQ1TkQ=qM0Rj1JHXYqN1Nk%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmomrLSLvVWKqdmqUwSCoGOGcQooGa=kzV4P9YvqBNCKSAw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20180524160234.GD68014@FreeBSD.org> <201805241610.w4OGAAGY041280@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20180530235156.310870d0@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <CAECmPwvFkO6Qc_7kZowCHdSEVQwV12ZomsbTe4=X=sp7pW=7Kg@mail.gmail.com> <20180531101643.GV3789@kib.kiev.ua> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1805311004450.15754@sea.ntplx.net> <CAFvkmYNtVywXoX7wcy0qMzbvh-amcF-PsOXQMQD2L%2B9p%2BZWQJw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomrLSLvVWKqdmqUwSCoGOGcQooGa=kzV4P9YvqBNCKSAw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As a driver/framework developer - no, don't do that. > > It's worked mostly great for the video side of things because your > touch points are "the VM system" and "linuxkpi". And they're all in > one big driver pull from Linux. > > For wifi as an example - it has a bunch of userland components, a > kernel framework component (net80211); it gets API churn from people > who keep making networking API changes without making them opaque (i > just got bitten by the STAILQ -> CK_STAILQ changes for multicast > iteration, instead of us growing a multicast iterator function thing.) We've had one for several years. You're just not using it. > Having it be multiple drivers/firmware means that anyone doing wifi > development here would have to install /all/ of the relevant packages > and the net80211 stuff and userland just to get any work done and hope > it stays in sync. This is the same old saw of people who can't be bothered to use ports. It is more of a headache with ABI drift but it's certainly not a fundamental impediment. -M
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