Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:20:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>, Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>, firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFC? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210202316560.19091-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <ybsfzv0tj3h.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > At Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:33:12 -0700 (PDT), > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > it has few hooks in other parts, and I am running it (not yet > > successfully though) in 4.7. (with only one minor edit from -current). > > > > > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Murray Stokely wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:00:56AM -0500, Matthew Reimer wrote: > > > > Now that -stable is unfrozen, can the firewire driver be MFC'd? > > > > > > 5.0-RELEASE will be the next official version of FreeBSD -- it's not > > > clear that this major new feature needs to be MFCed. I presume it > > > hooks in with many different parts of the kernel and may be > > > non-trivial to MFC. It hasn't been in -CURRENT very long yet anyway, > > > and would need more testing time regardless. > > > > > > - Murray > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message > > > > > The patch set is almost independ of the other part of the system. > It doesn't affect stability of the system without loading the > firewire modules. > (The cam-related patch has already been in 4-branch for a half year.) > > Julian, what kind of problem do you have with 4.7? > My (a month-old) 4.6-STABLE box works fine. I think it's working ok, but it didn't seem to find the dvd recorder I have on a SBP2<->atapi converter.. I sent you a dmesg last week.. but I have not been able to do more work on it yet. > > Any objection to MFC? I think it should be MFC'd but firat you should but the userland parts into /usr.sbin or somewhere.. They shouldn't be in the kernel sources. you can ask cvs@freebsd.org to repo copy them to wherever they should be.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message
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