From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 13:26:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D4537B401 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.omnis.com (smtp.omnis.com [216.239.128.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F190543FAF for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBCD9BEB3; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:26:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr.com To: Bosko Milekic , Harti Brandt Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:26:20 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030718181018.D972@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20030718132827.GC29449@technokratis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030718132827.GC29449@technokratis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307181326.20301.wes@softweyr.com> cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Committing a driver to -stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:26:23 -0000 On Friday 18 July 2003 06:28, Bosko Milekic wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:19:46PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > as far as I know new stuff should be first committed to -current > > and, if it turns out stable enough, MFCed to -stable. I would like > > to commit a driver to -stable that will not be in -current. The > > driver is for ProSum's ProATM card. I have recently committed a > > full busdma driver to current (patm(4)), that I hesitate to > > backport to -stable because it requires ATM infrastructure that we > > don't have in stable. On the other hand there is a -stable driver > > for this card from ProSum (www.prosum.fr) that is reported to be > > very stable under -stable :-), that several people use and that I > > would like to commit. So, can I do this? > > If the same device is supported under -current already, and it's a > question of how the driver is implemented (i.e., completely > differently in -stable due to a lack of -current's ATM > infrastructure), then I don't see why not. However, you may want > to wait for someone from the TRB (is there a list of who's part of > this group somewhere, anyway?) and/or -core to respond before you > take action. Agreed. I suggest dashing off a copy of your original message to arch@ and follow up to trb@ ONLY IF someone complains. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com