svn commit: r297136 - head/sys/conf

[Adrian Chadd]

On 21 March 2016 at 13:52, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 21, 2016, at 2:35 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 05:51:21AM +0000, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> A> Author: adrian
>> A> Date: Mon Mar 21 05:51:21 2016
>> A> New Revision: 297136
>> A> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/297136
>> A>
>> A> Log:
>> A>   Remove from NOTES - it's built as a module now.
>>
>> You are doing wrong. A driver must be buildable as a module and
>> statically as well.
>>
>> It is legitimate to remove from GENERIC, but not from NOTES.
>
> In private conversations with Adrian, he indicated that he’s about to
> reorganize this driver substantially. He’ll make sure it works during the
> record period as a module, but can’t guarantee he won’t break building
> it into the kernel. So he took it out from here so that the LINT build
> doesn’t break. He intends to reconnect it once he’s done with the
> rearrangement.

+1 here.

rtwn and urtwn are effectively the same family but with a different
DMA front-end, so I'd like to take a stab at unifying all of that.
Otherwise adding 11ac drivers in that family will just be annoyingly
duplicate-y.



-adrian