From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 27 17:34:00 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F343B16A41B; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:33:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (bsdimp.com [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B899713C465; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:33:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lBRHSv9S054884; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:28:57 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:33:27 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20071227.103327.-749251578.imp@bsdimp.com> To: mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200712271216.22436.mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200712271000.50995@aldan> <20071227.085247.1723236220.imp@bsdimp.com> <200712271216.22436.mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org, mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com, freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USB issues (not just Re: PR backlog) X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:34:00 -0000 In message: <200712271216.22436.mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> Mikhail Teterin writes: : =DE=C5=D4=D7=C5=D2 27 =C7=D2=D5=C4=C5=CE=D8 2007 10:52 =C4=CF, M. War= ner Losh =F7=C9 =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC=C9: : > Usually that's called a maintainer, but we haven't had a real one i= n a : > long time. Or even a fake one. : = : Well, you responded to me earlier suggesting, I take it upon myself t= o merge = : USB-advancements from 7.x to 6.x. That implied, somebody did somethin= g for = : 7.x, did not it? Can that body (whoever they are) not put on the vaca= nt = : USB-maintainer hat and push the fixes/improvements into 6.x (preferab= ly -- = : before the 6.3 is released unto the world)? If not that same person, = then, = : maybe, the people, whom you mention below as "looking at Hans' new st= ack", = : can do the merging? I did the bulk of the work for the 7.0 stuff, at least getting things into the tree. Since I did the work, my last job got totally insane and then I switched jobs. I don't have the time needed to do this. : But if somebody is, indeed, working on a new USB stack, that's : terrific news. It also implies, we might get a USB-maintainer some : time soon. I just want it soon/er/, because it has been far too long : already... We can all agree that this is long overdue. But we need to make sure of a few critical details so we don't create another mess for ourselves down the line. Warner