From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 14 10:35:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA26301 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:35:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA26290 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:35:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id TAA08407 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:21:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id TAA29546; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:19:13 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:19:13 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712141819.TAA29546@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: In-Reply-To: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: Proposed code merge, objections? X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) wrote: >> -stable is not meant to accumulate new features from -current. Unless >> there are strong reasons, new drivers should not migrate there. This >> _is_ official policy. > > Does this include drivers for common peripherals such as network cards > and SCSI controllers? Well, i wrote `strong reasons' (and other folks even made that less restrictive). A strong reason is, of course, driver changes due to market changes, like merging drivers for new chips where the older chips are getting rare already. The basic questions are: .. is there actually demand for it (which i doubt for aio/alog)? .. is the change non-intrusive enough to make fatal problems in -stable unlikely? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)