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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:52:40 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: multiple threads for interrupts
Message-ID:  <20020621135240.H68827@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D12E182.67F91292@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:19:14AM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206202333160.34612-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <3D12E182.67F91292@mindspring.com>

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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:19:14AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> > you know mate, it would be a Good Thing (tm)
> > if you got back int ocoding... and I don;t mean codimg for that box in you
> > apartment, but coding so as to provide distinct reviewable patches for
> > FreeBSD or the topics you are interested in..
> > 
> > I know your excuses include:
> > 1/ your machines are not running -current
> 
> Actually, the problem there is that patches against -stable are
> not considered acceptable because -current is so far and away from
> -stable that it's impossible to reconcile... there's more than a
> year and a half's difference in the code bases -- almost two years.

So??  Go buy a 30gb IDE disk at Fry's for $70 and dual boot.  Wala! you
have a new -CURRENT box from which to make new patches.

> Not a problem.  I have disk space.  Checking out multiple source
> trees isn't a problem (or wasn't, until the toolchain diverged).

See above.  BTW, ru builds -CURRENT on his releng4 box.

> I posted a corrective patch for the _BSD_WHAR_T_ definition problem
> with G++ 3.1 just the other day.
> 
> A couple of months back, I posted patches to several major ethernet
> drivers to support soft interrupt coelescing (they were even integrated).

Good, good.  Please keep them coming.

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