Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:57:39 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: usb@freebsd.org, FreeBSD core team <core@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP new usb code coming in. Message-ID: <20080819195738.GB45668@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080819194413.GB16977@elvis.mu.org> References: <20080819194413.GB16977@elvis.mu.org>
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Quoting Alfred Perlstein, who wrote on Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:44:13PM -0700 .. > After a long period of review and testing I am on the verge of > committing Hans Peter's new usb stack to -current. > > The patchset requires a SMALL _493_ line diff to the main code, > mostly bug fixes to arm. And then a large number of new files > for the usb system. > > The new usb system will be committed as separate files with > the intention of folding them over the old files before the > 9.0 release. > > The diff to the main files is here: > http://mu.org/~bright/usb2/usb2_release_001.diff > > The whole diff, including new files is here: > http://mu.org/~bright/usb2/usb4bsd.diff.gz > > FAQ: > Q. Has this been reviewed? > A. Yes, pretty strongly by myself and we've consulted with > various others, Warner, Scott and Andrew for review/testing. > I wouldn't say that Warner or Scott have given full review > but just about all questions have been answered. > > Q. Can we change the name from "usb2_" to my favorite name? > A. No. This is for a short period, stop being so annoying. > > Q. What about the old usb code? > A. What about it? :D > > Q. What about ttys? > A. I don't know, we'll address the mpsafe aspects of ttys shortly, > Hans is very responsive to SMP issues. > > Q. Shouldn't you wait? > A. Wait for what? No. Well, Robert *explicitely* asked to wait for the tty stuff from Ed to get into the tree. Apparantly you are planning on simply ignoring that request? Wilko
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