Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:52:51 -0800 (PST) From: Jin Guojun (FTG staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> To: billf@chc-chimes.com, jd@davida.com Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamically loadable drivers Message-ID: <200001102152.NAA03174@george.lbl.gov>
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Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> wrote: } On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Joseph Davida wrote: } > Looks like 4.0 (as of 01/05/2000) is } [...] } > I was told that the OSS driver still works } > with the latest Linux kernel. Perhaps } > it's time I switched to something that } > does not leave users in such a lurch } > with every release. } } Considering 4.0 hasn't released yet, I don't know what you are bitching } about. Linux's track record for binary compatibility isn't exactly } squeaky clean either. This is the urgly part of the Linux -- every release is not consistance and not stable -- x.y.100 broke the EA driver, x.y.101 broke EB driver, x.y.102 broke EC driver, etc. As we noticed that we do not have pre-release testing before 3.4-RELEASE, and much more bugs in the 3.x releases. Hopefully, FreeBSD will not follow Linux in this way. -Jin . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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