Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:09:59 +0000 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: Support for Areca ARC-1300-4X on 8-STABLE? Message-ID: <20101124160959.GB24688@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <F144E032-E803-48DE-8855-190B74DF3D84@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <D7494E82-4424-4535-87F9-59FAC5A170B3@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20101124053255.GA15123@icarus.home.lan> <F144E032-E803-48DE-8855-190B74DF3D84@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:01:31AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > I'd also hope that such a vendor would be contributing its drivers > directly into the source tree rather than having a separate set of > patches or downloads for end-users to fiddle about with. In a perfect world, yes, but not all vendors currently do this. The have their own release cycles and source repositories, as we have ours: in some cases, it takes a non-trivial amount of effort to coordinate the two. I'm always happy to see closer cooperation, of course. mcl
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