Adding new media types to if_media.h

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, March 12, 2015 04:07:54 PM Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 02/28/15 13:28, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Friday, February 27, 2015 10:23:10 PM Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 08:25:59PM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >> A> [snip]
> >> A>
> >> A> I think Mike's approach is good - it makes it easy to MFC to 10.2
> >> A> since there's extended lifecycle stuff to do there - and then we can
> >> A> plan out how do the "betterer" fix after it's landed and churned
> >> A> things.
> >>
> >> ... and we will be ought to support the "betterer" fix along with
> >> the "not so betterer" for a very long time.
> >>
> >> The rock on which we split in this argument is that some developers
> >> write their code for stable/x and then forward-port it to head,
> >> focused on quality of result for stable/x; while other developers
> >> do the opposite: write code to head, then consider or not consider
> >> merging it stable/x.
> >
> > No, this is not quite true.  Some folks have to write drivers on HEAD but also
> > support running those drivers on older branches.  The MFC's get harder when
> > you have very different APIs on the different branches.  It's already harder
> > to test stat changes now since it requires completely different patches for
> > <= 10 (the only thing people are supposed to use in production) vs head due to
> > if_getcounter() and friends.  Also, since 11 won't be out until 2016, that is
> > far, far too long to wait for more media types.  The stuff we need to support
> > is already shipping in products today.  We can't not support these in 10 (and
> > possibly 9).
> >
> 
> Any news on this issue? Is anyone working on a solution for -head ?

I believe a variant of Mike's patch is in phabricator now?

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John Baldwin