From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 12 13:15:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA20784 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 May 1995 13:15:28 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA20777 for ; Fri, 12 May 1995 13:15:24 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id NAA10084; Fri, 12 May 1995 13:18:17 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id NAA00224; Fri, 12 May 1995 13:15:16 -0700 Message-Id: <199505122015.NAA00224@corbin.Root.COM> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne), FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: CODE FREEZE is going to happen In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 95 11:18:50 PDT." <199505121818.LAA01345@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 13:15:15 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Too late for a new driver, this is the one area that has always bitten >us in allowing these types of kernel changes late in the game. But once >again this is a driver that is not compiled in by default. Jordan? David? >can we allow the driver to be updated (someone else with commit would >have to do it if both Jordan and David ok it). > >Otherwise I will go commit the comment change. It's to late to make significant changes to existing drivers. It's probably too late to add new drivers (but we'll evaluate this on a per-instance). All of this can be done as soon as 2.0.5 is cut. Folks, we are trying to get this thing out the door! It is already 3 weeks overdue! Comment changes are almost never a problem. -DG