AoE for 4.x
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Tue Sep 21 13:32:43 PDT 2004
Sam wrote:
>> I'm sure you mentionned this before, but why ar eyou not doing it
>> against -current first?
>>
>> We generally don't allow changes to 4.x untill they have settled a
>> bit in -current. (or 5.x)
>
>
> I decided to write a 4.x driver thinking it would a) be easier to port
> forward than backward, and b) would give me experience in the old kernel
> to understand why certain changes were made for the new.
>
> [Thompson's Rule for First-Time Telescope Makers]
> It is faster to make a four-inch mirror and then a six-inch mirror than
> to make a six-inch mirror.
hmmmm it might be the other way around here...
>
>
> As for the single patch, I'll cook one up shortly. I just figured it
> would be more of a pain to look through.
I guess we are used to it.
I can't recommend enough the utility of having a cvs mirror and using
cvs to keep your
work trees sync'd against FreeBSD. It is also a goodd way of making
sure that you don't
forget parts of the diff (e.g. Makefiles etc.) as CVS will pick up all
the changed files.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sam
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