Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 06:33:57 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FDDI DRIVER: The curtain is going down on 2.1-stable in 5 days! Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961109062119.16883F-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <17056.847524712@time.cdrom.com>
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Oops... this will teach me to to read before I leap! As David G. pointed
out the changes are more than just drop-in replacements; I should have
been more careful to complete the research before I spoke up. I think
you're right; it is too late for 2.1.6 and probably 2.2. I'm shuffling
hardware at the moment but will hopefully have the P5/166 defpa machine
upgraded to a P6/200 in a couple of weeks - I'll try the new driver in
3.0-current and make a more credible report/integration request at that
time.
With respect to 2.1.6, how about this small comprimise: remove the two
offending printf()'s in fddi_input() to keep the message buffer from
overflowing with debug output when an fddi ring has something other than
IP on it (kern/1859). There seemed to be some consensus for doing this
when I brought it up in -hackers a little while ago.
-Chris
On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Considering the relatively small amount of work to integrate and the
> > highly reliable source of the code, do you think it could be committed
> > prior to 2.1.6?
>
> Well, my first impulse is to say "why wait this late?! We can't even
> test it now! :-(" But I don't know how many people are even using FDDI
> under 2.1.5. What do the folks here who actually have a vested
> interest in this issue think? On general principles, this is simply
> too late. An exception might be possible if I really get the feeling
> that it's not going to come back to haunt me, like some 11th hour
> changes in 2.1.5 did. :-(
>
> Jordan
>
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