Inbox driver

[Venkat Duvvuru]

Thanks for the reply. Emulex's OCE driver is present in Freebsd-8.3
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.3.0/sys/dev/ but it is not present in
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/9.0.0/sys/dev/, is there a way to get
this driver into 9.0.0 branch? And the same driver is present in 9.1-RC1 so
can I assume that it is going to be part of 9.1-RELEASE?

Please clarify.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert <
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> Venkat Duvvuru <venkatduvvuru.ml at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > If a driver module misses the deadline to make it inbox , I think that
> it's
> > gonna be part of the next Freebsd release. The sources show up in the svn
> > repository, probably this is one confirmation that it's gonna be part of
> > the next release..Is my understanding correct? Please clarify.
>
> I don't know what you mean about "inbox," but basically you're
> right. It's a bit more complicated, though, because the svn repository
> has several "branches" -- and a feature introduced to 10.x, for example,
> may or not show up in 9.x. If a feature is introduced into HEAD, you can
> be pretty sure it will make it into some release eventually.
>
> Does that help? I tried to keep it brief...
>