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Date:      Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:15:09 -0500
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   if_fxp - the real point
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.0.20010308120015.01ee2eb0@mail.etinc.com>

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I dont have time for weenie flame wars with people who are more interested 
in ignoring problems than fixing them.

The point here seems very simple. The intel NICs are on a large number of 
MBs and the eepro100 is the most popular card on the market. So why is 
there vitually no maintainer for arguably the most important driver in the 
freebsd tree when there are maintainers for scads of obscure, must less 
used cards? freebsd touts a "core team"  which provides "direction"...does 
the "direction" include letting important drivers fall out of maintenance 
in favor of some crappy netgear card that chokes at 3,000pps?

Keeping mainstream FreeBSD releases up to date is more important then 
working on next years release. Otherwise you just have another linux.

DB

PS: Whatever happened to all of the "support" that BSDI was going to provide?


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